Category: writer
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus
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Know not to revere human things too much.
Aeschylus
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach
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I wrote ‘White Teeth’ in the late nineties. I didn’t really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
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I don’t teach writing classes anymore, and I’m really glad I don’t, because I would feel very strange about telling people, ‘Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.’
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
Deepak Chopra