Quotes of the Week:

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
—Lorraine Hansberry

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
—Cheryl Strayed

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.
—J.H. Glaze

Write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
—Erica Jong

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
—C.S Lewis

The best time for planning a book is while doing the dishes.
—Agatha Christie

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
—Eugene Ionesco