Quotes of the Week

You own everything that happened to you. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
—Anne Lamott

First requirement of the writer is the ability to concentrate for long periods of time. Second...the wish to do so.
—Joyce Carol Oates

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing.
—Bob Dylan

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down.
—Mary Pickford

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
—Mick Jagger

If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area.
—David Bowie

If you're not getting older, you're dead.
—Tom Petty

Don’t rush or force the ending… . All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
—Chuck Palahniuk

You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker. This is a depressing thought for a writer.
—Andy Rooney