Quotes of the Week

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

—Stephen King

Words are, of course, the most powerful drugs used by mankind.

—Rudyard Kipling

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

—William Faulkner

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

—Robert Frost

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

—Orson Welles

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

—Quentin Tarantino

Nothing that happens to a writer, however happy, however tragic, is ever wasted.

—P.D. James