Real Generosity

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~ Albert Camus

Thinking Makes Reading Ours

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke

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

Words Are Events

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and…

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