Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Ray Bradbury, on imagination:


Love what you do and do what you love.
Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.
You do what you want, what you love.
Imagination should be the center of your life.

― Ray Bradbury.

Monday, December 1, 2025

Dorothy Day, on writing:


Writing is hard work.
But if you want to become a writer you will become one.
Nothing will stop you.

- Dorothy Day.

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Charles Bukowski, on writing:


When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about.
My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

- Charles Bukowski.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:


Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Friday, November 28, 2025

William E. Gladstone, on books:


Books are delightful society.
If you go into a room and find it full of books - 
even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you,
to bid you welcome.

- William E. Gladstone.

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Marita Golden, on reading and writing:


The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey,
and our educational system.
We write as an act of self-expression.
We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

- Marita Golden.

Happy Thanksgiving :)


If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

- Meister Eckhart.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

H. P. Lovecraft, on writing:


At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.
No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

- H. P. Lovecraft.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Monday, November 24, 2025

Barack Obama, on writing:


Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are.
The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

- Barack Obama.

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Maya Angelou, on writing:


The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

- Maya Angelou.

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Lloyd Alexander, on reading:


Keep reading.
It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

- Lloyd Alexander.

Monday, November 17, 2025

Caroline Gordon, on books and reading:


A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

– Caroline Gordon.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Dr. Seuss, on books:


Fill your house with stacks of books,
in all the crannies and all the nooks.

- Dr. Seuss.

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025

Kurt Vonnegut, on reading and writing:


I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history,
we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well.
This to me is a miracle.

– Kurt Vonnegut.