Without labor nothing prospers.
- Sophocles.
Friday, November 23, 2018
R. A. Salvatore, on writing:
If you can quit, then quit.
If you can't quit, you're a writer.
- R. A. Salvatore.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, on dedication:
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Terry Pratchett, on writing:
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file.
I dread not having work in progress.
- Terry Pratchett.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Michael Korda, on writing:
Write it down.
Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality.
Don't just think it - ink it!
- Michael Korda.
Stephen King, on writing:
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees.
When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
- Stephen King.
Barack Obama, on dedication:
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress.
- Barack Obama.
Isak Dinesen, on dedication:
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
- Isak Dinesen.
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