+ <%
+ quotes = [
+ { text: "The secret to getting ahead is getting started.", author: "Mark Twain" },
+ { text: "A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.", author: "Donald Maass" },
+ { text: "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.", author: "Maya Angelou" },
+ { text: "The first draft of anything is shit.", author: "Ernest Hemingway" },
+ { text: "Write what you need to know, not what you already know.", author: "Donald Barthelme" },
+ { text: "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.", author: "Anne Frank" },
+ { text: "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.", author: "Anaïs Nin" },
+ { text: "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.", author: "Anaïs Nin" },
+ { text: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.", author: "Ernest Hemingway" },
+ { text: "The scariest moment is always just before you start.", author: "Stephen King" },
+ { text: "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.", author: "Anton Chekhov" },
+ { text: "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.", author: "Stephen King" },
+ { text: "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.", author: "Gustave Flaubert" },
+ { text: "You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.", author: "Octavia Butler" },
+ { text: "A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.", author: "Chuck Palahniuk" },
+ { text: "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.", author: "E.L. Doctorow" },
+ { text: "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.", author: "Maya Angelou" },
+ { text: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.", author: "Thomas Mann" },
+ { text: "The only way to write a novel is to assume that you will never publish it.", author: "John Irving" },
+ { text: "The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.", author: "Agatha Christie" },
+ { text: "You can make anything by writing.", author: "C.S. Lewis" },
+ { text: "Writing is the painting of the voice.", author: "Voltaire" },
+ { text: "A writer is a world trapped in a person.", author: "Victor Hugo" },
+ { text: "The writer's job is to tell the truth, even when it hurts.", author: "George Orwell" },
+ { text: "The best stories are those that are true, even if they never happened.", author: "Unknown" },
+ { text: "Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.", author: "Pat Conroy" },
+ { text: "A writer is a person who can make a story out of anything.", author: "Neil Gaiman" },
+ { text: "The only way to write is to write a lot.", author: "Ray Bradbury" },
+ { text: "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.", author: "Jules Renard" },
+ { text: "A writer is someone who has something to say and knows how to say it.", author: "William Zinsser" },
+ { text: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", author: "Alan Kay" },
+ { text: "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.", author: "E.L. Doctorow" },
+ { text: "The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.", author: "Seth Godin" }
+ ]
+
+ # Use day of year to ensure same quote per day
+ day_of_year = Time.current.yday
+ today_quote = quotes[day_of_year % quotes.length]
+ %>
+
+
+ "<%= today_quote[:text] %>"
+
+
+
+ — <%= today_quote[:author] %>
+
+