I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ~ Anais Nin
Write While The Heat Is In You
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ~ Henry David Thoreau
You Make Something
You make something from the things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something… ~ Ernest Hemingway
Nothing Is Little
To a great mind, nothing is little. ~ Sherlock Holmes
A Writer’s Job Is Ingoing
About nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We have been taught to be ashamed of not being outgoing. But a writer’s job is ingoing. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Celebrate A Simple Life
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I Was A Different Person Then
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. ~ Lewis Carroll
Kindness Is The Language
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
As Necessary As Bread
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver