“Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.”
–Sigmund Freud
Source: @SarahSalway
Tag Archive for ‘Quotation of the Week’ 
Quotation of the Week: Moshe Sakal
“As Picasso said: know how to draw a horse, and only then do Cubism. That means, before you go and break the rules, you’d better know the rules first.”
–Moshe Sakal
Source: Moshe Sakal’s Writer Rules. If Sakal’s name is familiar, perhaps that’s because you heard about his expulsion from a literary panel last week. Sakal is an Israeli writer, and a Palestinian poet on the panel requested (demanded, it seems) that the panel proceed without Sakal.
Quotation of the Week: Andrew Silow-Carroll
“But I did learn something I should have figured out about novel-writing back when I was an English major: It’s hard.”
–Andrew Silow-Carroll
Source: New Jersey Jewish News, of which Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor-in-chief. NJJN is my “other” local Jewish newspaper, the Jewish newspaper of the community where I spent half my childhood. I enjoy most of Mr. Silow-Carroll’s columns, but I LOVED this one, at the conclusion of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Quotation of the Week: Lyn Hejinian
“Every family has its own collection of stories, but not every family has someone to tell them.”
- Lyn Hejinian
Source: @_joycastro
Quotation of the Week: Michel de Montaigne
“When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.”
–Michel de Montaigne
Source: @Quotes4Writers
(This one really resonates for me right now, since the talk I gave last Friday at my home congregation in N.J. was peppered with quotations!)
