Mabel Seeley, on writing:

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

– Mabel Seeley.

Mark Twain, on reading:

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

- Mark Twain.

Ursula K. Le Guin, on writing:

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?,

I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

- Ursula K. Le Guin.

Harlan Ellison - on writing:

Writing is the hardest work in the world.

I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver,

and I tell you – as if you haven’t been told a million times already – 

that writing is harder.

Lonelier.

And nobler and more enriching.

– Harlan Ellison.

Mary Wortley Montagu, on reading:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading,

nor any pleasure so lasting.

– Mary Wortley Montagu.

Daniel J. Boorstin, on books:

Books are the main source of our knowledge, our reservoir of first faith, memory, wisdom, morality, poetry, philosophy, history and science.

- Daniel J. Boorstin.

Iris Chang, on writing:

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself.

And you have no duty towards anyone else.

- Iris Chang.

Ray Bradbury, on writing:

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow

after your characters have run by

on their way to incredible destinations.

- Ray Bradbury.

Annie Dillard, on writing:

One of the few things I know about writing is this:

Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

- Annie Dillard.

Earth Day – April 22:

April 22 is Earth Day

Value and protect the environment, wildlife and pollinators.
Climate change is real.
Learn how to reduce carbon emissions.
Conserve.
Observe.
Preserve.
Recycle.
Reduce.
Reuse.
Save.

Earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Richard Eberhart, on writing:

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.

Hilma Wolitzer, on writing:

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation, but not really a lonely one.

The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

- Hilma Wolitzer.

George V. Higgins, on writing:

The characters are telling you the story.

I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it.

If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

- George V. Higgins.

Selma Lagerlöf, on imagination:

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

- Selma Lagerlöf.

Raymond Chandler, on writing:

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

- Raymond Chandler.

J.K. Rowling, on writing:

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion,

so I don't think anyone could have made me do it,

or prevented me from doing it.

- J.K. Rowling.

W. Somerset Maugham, on reading:

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham.

Introvert insight:

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

– Liv Tyler.

I am a minimalist.
I like saying the most with the least.

– Bob Newhart.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

– Marilynne Robinson.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

– Bertrand Russell.

Mel Brooks, on writing:

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities
and have them relate to other characters living with him.

– Mel Brooks.

Mr. Rogers' wisdom:

The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas;

they're always "in the wings".

That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep

rather than the flashy and the superficial.

- Fred Rogers.