A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Nicolas Chamfort
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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Kahlil Gibran
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and...
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Stephen Hawking
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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William Shakespeare
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X
More Quotes By Edna Ferber
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel.
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
