04/02/08

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. -Albert Einstein

04/01/08

Whether or not you write well, write bravely. -Bill Stout

03/31/08

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith

03/28/08

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

03/27/08

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. -James Earl Jones

03/26/08

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. -Joan Didion

03/25/08

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke

03/24/08

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. -Jessye Norman

03/20/08

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. -Margaret Atwood

03/19/08

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. -Emily Dickinson