I think the quotes might be my favourite part of Goodreads, you know. There’s just something about a beautiful piece of prose or the perfect line of snappy dialogue.

What I think really makes a damn good quote though is when you can tell it just happened – instead of pouring over it, editing and re-editing, it simply flowed onto the page and the writer had a little grin to his or her face because it just worked and they knew it. No tinkering required.

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov

A beautiful quote, and damn good advice.

A certain writer once said: “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”

True story.

And yes, I’m batting two for two with the Stephen King references – I’d have tried to mix it up, but his advice just fits so well and I’m sure any quote you have to go looking for might be the wrong one for the occasion too ... You can quote me on that.