Quotes of the Week

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac B. Singer

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can write anything good.
—William Faulkner

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
―Ernest Hemingway

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
—Hart Crane

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly

It is impossible to discourage real writers—they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
—Sinclair Lewis

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
—Cheryl Strayed