quotes

"My father calls me Three-sided Sophie: one side is dreamy and romantic; one is logical and down-to-earth; and the third side is hardheaded and impulsive. He says I am either in dreamland or earthland or mule-land, and if I ever get the three together I'll be all set, though I wonder where I will be then. If I'm not in dreamland or earthland or mule-land, where will I be?...My father says he doesn't know who my hardheaded mule side resembles. He says mules don't run in the family."

~from The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech

I used to be sane, but I got better.

"Life is either a great adventure, or nothing." ~Helen Keller

�You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.� ~ anonymous

�Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.� ~ Thomas Fuller

�One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.� ~ African Proverb

�A book holds a house of gold.� ~ Chinese Proverb

�Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don�t know how to laugh either.� ~ Golda Meir

�The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man know himself to be a fool.� ~ William Shakespeare

�Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.� ~ Martin Luther

�The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.� ~ John Billings

�Let every man take care how he talks, or how he writes of other men, and not set down at random, higgle-de-piggledy, whatever comes into his noddle.� ~ Cervantes

�My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more, and it is everything.� ~ Joseph Conrad

�To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool God ever turned out and sent rumbling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books, and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries, and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff the books like perfumes, and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live in hysteria, and out of it make fine stories-science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.� ~ Ray Bradbury

�I sit at my desk beside the window, pen in hand, staring at a blank notebook with the dull realization that I�ll never be Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald or anything remotely near them. Every young writer has this realization sooner or later; the good ones pick themselves up and carry on. The rest become literary critics. I would be a good critic.� ~ from It�s a Wonderful Life, by Meghan M. Walters