Quote of the Day: Steve Faber

We all write about the same things. We may disguise it, but we all write about love.

Quote of the Day: Moliere

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. 

Quote of the Day: Pete Hamill

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting. 

Quote of the Day: Leo Rosten

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can’t help it. 

Quote of the Day: Samuel Johnson

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. 

Quote of the Day: Richard Price

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Everything else– just tear that motherfucker apart. 

Quote of the Day: George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Quote of the Day: Robert Frost

It begins with a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

Quote of the Day: William Grass

Getting even is one reason for writing. 

Quote of the Day: Ernest Hemingway

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.