12/06/07

The process of writing (composing) is democratic in its demand for hard work, regardless of the writer's ability. -Jane Mikoni

12/05/07

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. -E.L. Doctorow

12/04/07

Don't get it right, just get it written. -James Thurber

12/03/07

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me, or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. -Elaine Maxwell

11/30/07

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. -Don Delillo

11/29/07

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

11/28/07

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. -Ursula K. Le Guin

11/23/07

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan

11/20/07

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel De Montaigne

11/19/07

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -Robert Davies