Quotes of the Week

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
—Paul Theroux

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
—William Faulkner

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
—Truman Capote

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
—Richard Bach

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

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