Quotes of the Week

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

—Ray Bradbury

Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

—Bill Stout

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader's.

—Stephen King

Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

—G.K. Chesterton

Creativity is an act of defiance.

—Twlya Tharp

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

—Neil Gaiman

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

—W. Somerset Maugham

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children isn't a good children's story in the slightest. 

—C.S. Lewis

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

—Orson Welles