Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Quotes of the Week

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
—Ray Bradbury

You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
—Jackie Collins

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
—Marlon Brando

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny.
—Alain de Botton

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may.
—John F. Kennedy

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
—Stephen Fry

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

A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
—John Irving

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
—Benedict Cumberbatch

Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.
—Neil Gaiman

Friday, January 4, 2019

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Quote of the Week

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
—Ray Bradbury

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
—James Michener

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
—Jules Renard

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
—Stephen King

There is only one way to work—Like Hell.
—Bette Davis

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
—Cheryl Strayed

Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction.
—Clint Eastwood

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
—Billy Wilder

If a writer falls in love with you, you will never die.
—Unknown

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
—Flannery O’Connor