Authors - A few quotes I like

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. --Virginia Woolf (This is my favorite quote here--from one of my favorite authors.)

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Those of us who saw the TV program "Little House on the Prairie can't help but think of her as "Half Pint.")

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. - Walt Whitman (Walt could get away with saying this, but the rest of us wouldn't dare.)

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde (Perhaps, unless one's imagination is consistently active.)

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw (Saying this is living dangerously.)

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Pressure cooker.)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain (The only advantage is knowing that he could.)

Journalism is literature in a hurry. - Matthew Arnold (We often forget that many of our best writers began as journalists.)

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. - Nancy Astor (A sweaty ride on a horse out into the middle of nowhere is wondrous only after the fact.)

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. - Marion Zimmer Bradley (As long as we save some for the daily grind right now.)

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks (I often wonder where some of those people came from and why they won't go away.)

It is brave to be involved. - Gwendolyn Brooks (Most of us remain silent out of self preservation.)

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up. - Ingmar Bergman (We can, I think, return to childhood whenever we need to be re-energized.)

Poisons pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. - Dorothy Parker (Experience is the best teacher.)

--Malcolm