Happy Holidays!
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. –Ludwig van Beethoven
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. -Albert Schweitzer
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. –Ursula K. LeGuin
Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
– Charles de Lint
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
-Barry Lopez
“Everyone should observe the way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”
— Hasidic saying
The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone. –Karen Salmansohn
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. –Cyril Connolly
If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write. -Stephen King
If you are writing about baloney, don’t try to make it Cornish hen, because that is the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darned good baloney.
-Leo Burnett
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Joshua J. Marine
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. –E.B. White
When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. –William Faulkner
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. –Barbara Kingsolver
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. –Ken MacLeod
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. –E.L. Doctorow
The future belongs to those who believe in dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. –Sidney Smith
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. –Arthur C. Clarke
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. –Buddha
