Quotes of the Week

If your book doesn't keep you up nights writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
—James A. Michener

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
—Françoise Sagan

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
—Ann Patchett

You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.
—Gertrude Stein

If today was not a productive day don't beat yourself to death over it. Wake up tomorrow and start from there. Try it. It works. We can't go back. We can only go forward. Let's go!
—Terry McMillan

A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing
—Junot Díaz

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast.
—Miguel De Unamuno

The primary duty of literature is to tell the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed.
—Stephen King