Quotes of the Week

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

—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