09/07/07

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. -Ed Parker

09/06/07

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there." -Jef Mallett

09/05/07

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. -Paul Verlaine

09/04/07

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human. -Richard Wright

08/31/07

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? -Kurt Vonnegut

08/30/07

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

08/29/07

Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else. -Freya Stark

08/28/07

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. -Dale Carnegie

08/27/07

Read like a wolf eats. -Gary Paulsen

08/24/07

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too. -Knut Hamsun