As I’ve gone through life, I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
Walter Murch
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Quote of the Week — 12.14.15
Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of people use them for that purpose. Someone who has decided to write a novel, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning. People who fail to write novels don’t do it by sitting in front of a blank page for days without writing anything. They do it by feeding the cat, going out to buy something they need for their apartment, meeting a friend for coffee, checking email. “I don’t have time to work,” they say. And they don’t; they’ve made sure of that.
Paul Graham
Quote of the Week — 12.07.15
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Week — 11.30.15
If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
Sherlock Holmes (as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Quote of the Week — 11.23.15
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
Quote of the Week — 11.16.15
Nobody tells anecdotes about the quiet people who just do their work.
Joyce Carol Oates
Quote of the Week — 11.09.15
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero
Quote of the Week — 11.02.15
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote of the Week — 10.26.15
Writers don’t write from experience. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Nikki Giovanni
Quote of the Week — 10.19.15
It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon
