Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Quotes of the Week

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
—John Houston

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
—Ray Bradbury

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
—Ernest Hemingway

The worst crime you can commit is telling the audience something they already know.
—Aaron Sorkin

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Françoise Sagan

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
—Mark Twain

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

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.
—Gerald Brenan

If history was taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
—Rudyard Kipling


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