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Quotes of the Week

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
—Jack London

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
—Stephen King

Make #writing a regular part of your daily routine…so that it feels more natural to write than not to.
—Jennifer Egan

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
—Clint Eastwood

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
—ALFRED HITCHCOCK

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
—James Baldwin

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
—Anna Deavere Smith

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
—Anton Chekhov

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Quotes of the Week

When all else fails write what your heart tells you.
—Mark Twain

Don't say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description.
—C.S. Lewis

I have rewritten, often several times, every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
—Vladimir Nabokov

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
—Paul McCartney

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
—Barbara Kingsolver

Just trust your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you.
—Nikki Giovanni

Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
—Maya Angelou

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
—Maya Angelou

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
—Robin Williams

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. 
—Anne Frank

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Quotes of the Week

Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
—Maya Angelou

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
—Robin Williams

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. 
—Anne Frank

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
—Adrienne Rich

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
—Orson Welles

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
—William Gibson

Talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
—Stephen King

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it’s too discouraging.
—Gore Vidal

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Quotes of the Week

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
—Ray Bradbury

You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
—Jackie Collins

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
—Marlon Brando

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny.
—Alain de Botton

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may.
—John F. Kennedy

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
—Stephen Fry

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
—Dan Brown

A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
—John Irving

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
—Benedict Cumberbatch

Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.
—Neil Gaiman

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Quote of the Week

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
—Ray Bradbury

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
—James Michener

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
—Jules Renard

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
—Stephen King

There is only one way to work—Like Hell.
—Bette Davis

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

Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction.
—Clint Eastwood

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
—Billy Wilder

If a writer falls in love with you, you will never die.
—Unknown

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
—Flannery O’Connor

Happy New Year!