Gratitude Is Similar To Electricity

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner

Writers Need Persistence

If there’s any single talent a writer needs, it’s persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell. ~ Octavia Butler

Listen To Poets

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. ~ Jonas Mekas