Quotes of the Week

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
—Patti Smith

All good #writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

On writing Fiction: "I wisely started with a map."
—J.R.R. Tolkien

When you catch an adjective, kill it —perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.
—Mark Twain

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

You are only as good as the best thing you've ever done.
—Billy Wilder

If history was taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
—Rudyard Kipling

Let the readers do some of the work themselves.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
—Arthur Miller