Quote of the Month
Writing is very easy…
"Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of the typewriter until little drops of blood appear on your forehead" -- Sportswriter Red Smith Have a suggestion for Quote of the Week? Any topic. Email...
The possibilities offered by books are legion…
"The possibilities offered by books are legion. The solitary relationship of a reader with his or her books breaks into dozens of further relationships: with friends upon whom we urge the books we like, with booksellers (the few who have survived in the Age of...
I learned that you should feel when writing…
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." --Brenda Ueland, American author, 1891-1985 Have a suggestion...
What was any art but a mould to imprison for a moment…
"What was any art but a mould to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?" -- Willa Cather (This quote is a main inspiration for my new book Singing All The...
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth…
"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that...
Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one…
"Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word? Your next sentence, paragraph, section, chapter? Your next ball of fact. You select what...
Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world…
"Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final." -- from the novel Let...
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism…
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons." –Vaclav Havel as...