Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Be obscure clearly.
Never hurry and never worry!
Loneliness is a strange gift.
The best writing is rewriting.
Good deeds never go unpunished.
We stand or fall by television.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
In every queen there's a touch of floozy.
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Books are the door of escape from the forest.
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
Write about it by day and dream about it by night.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.
I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.
Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.
"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
