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“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”

Henry Van Dyke

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have it.”

Ernest Hemingway

“To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.”

Truman Capote

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.”

Isaac Asimov

“My stories run up and bite me in the leg.  I respond by writing them down – everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”

Ray Bradbury

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”

Robert Frost

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”

T.S. Eliot

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

Oscar Wilde

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

H.G. Wells

“A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe