Stephen King
In his book, On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King writes, “… I stopped in the lobby to thank the concierge again for letting me use Mr. Kipling’s beautiful desk. “I’m so…
Bagger Vance
Now play the game … your game … the one that only you was meant to play … the one that was given to you when you come into this world. ~.~
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown…
Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ~.~
Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love. ~.~ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~.~ The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in…
Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ~.~ The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone…
A Buddhist Monk
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven: the same key opens the gates of hell.” Wisdom of a Buddhist Monk ~.~
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~.~
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything. ~.~
Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as…
writingcareer.com
Sometimes, pleasant surprises come from places you least expect. Reading down my Facebook timeline this morning I came across a post from Facebook4freelancers. While that’s not unusual — it was a surprise when I learned…
Autumn’s Reading List
As often happens when I start new projects, or a new phase of an ongoing project — I begin by “cleaning house” and organizing myself in creative and mundane ways. It occured to me that…
23 September 2013
Because I’m having happy “collisions” in what I’m doing with creating content for a number of websites — and struggling to keep my personal ambition to nurture my own literary “children” — I decided to add…
Alfred Hitchcock
The one thing they can’t take away from me — that’s my talent. ~.~