Saturday, February 26, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Quotes of the Week
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
—Stephen King
Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you’re interested, keep working. If you’re bored, keep working.
—Michael Crichton
Shyness often blossoms into a creative calling. Actors are often shy people, for example. And writers too, because they mostly are people who, in their childhood and adolescence, have read a lot, alone and in silence. Solitude is an essential element for a writer.
—Jhumpa Lahiri
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
—Alain de Botton
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Quotes of the Week
—Ernest Hemingway
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
—Alain de Botton
If you’re a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That’s the way to get an idea.
—Andy Rooney
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.
—Terry Pratchett
A good writer is basically a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac B. Singer
We all have time machines, don't we, those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward are dreams.
—H.G. Wells
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Quotes of the Week
—Anaïs Nin
In some ways my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy and loss.
—Joni Mitchell
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
—Cheryl Strayed
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. Inspire them.
—Frank McCourt
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
—Ian Fleming
Write a page every day. That’s about 200 words, or 1,000 words a week. Do that for two years and you’ll have a novel that’s long enough. Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.
—John Grisham
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