Quotes of the Week

You'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
—J.K. Rowling

A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem to be a happy accident.
—W. Somerset Maugham

Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook.
—Jane Kenyon

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
—M.F.K. Fisher

Do it now—write nothing but what your conviction of its truth inspires you to write.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

If I put love into the work, it will find friends.
—Vincent Van Gogh

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
—H.G. Wells

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not caring what anyone else says.
—Gore Vidal

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Quotes of the Week

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
—Frank Herbert

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
—D. H. Lawrence

Tell a story! Don’t try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first.
—Anne McCaffrey

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room and doing it.
—William Goldman

It is impossible to discourage real writers—they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
—Sinclair Lewis

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because the people fail to see it.
—James A. Michener

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

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
—Ida Lupino

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you’re a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.
—Andy Rooney

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.
—Allen Ginsberg

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