Quote of the day: 3-1-05 The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. - Arthur Stainback

"...random sanity can disrupt well-organized and systematic madness." The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir Of The Czech Resistance by Radomir Luza, Christina Vella If you worked where I work, you'd understand why I like this quote so much. :)

I like it already :)

"I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day." Ernest Hemingway

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." -- Richard Bach

Thanks dialyn :) This is the last day of work so i've been really busy.

Your very last day of work? !! :)

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Quote for March 5: All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the Basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the bluebird, singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happened, of things that are not and that should be. --Oscar Wilde (The Decay of Lying)

hehehe Too cool!!! :) That is awesome!

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula Le Guin

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. - Ernest Hemingway

It is like fishing. But I do not wait very long, for there is always a nibble--and this is where receptivity comes in. To get started, I will accept anything that occurs to me. Something always occurs, of course, to any of us. We can't keep from thinking. --William Stafford, A Way of Writing

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. - Marcel Proust

"The truth is that writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial." Virginia Woolf

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. --Oliver Herford

"...[G]ood stories are more than anecdotes. They contain something that matters; they transform and they reaffirm; they tell us what is good and what is evil, and how to wend our way through the darkest labyrinth and return safely to hearth and home." --Philip Martin in "Once upon a time." - THE WRITER, April 2005.

"Remember only this thing," said Badger. "The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. 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. That is why we put stories in each others memory. This is how people care for themselves." Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez

ohhh - dialyn - that was an amazing quote ... Best one yet!

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it... - Michael Crichton

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

"By reading good prose constantly your ear will come to know the harmony of language, and you will find that your taste will unerringly tell you what is good and what is bad in style, without your being able to explain even to yourself the precise quality that distinguishes the good from the bad." Stephen Coleridge in The Glory of English Prose

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe. James Joyce

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. J. M. Synge

May the leprechauns be near you, To spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, Smile upon you St. Patricks Day.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. W.B. Yeats

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."-- Longfellow

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King

"Thus the value of great fiction, we begin to suspect, is not just that it entertains us or distracts us from our troubles, not just that it broadens our knowledge of people and places, but also that it helps us to know what we believe, reinforces those qualities that are noblest in us, leads us to feel uneasy about our faults and limitations." J. Gardner The Art of Fiction