Quotes August 02, 2020

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
 
 
 
 
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs
 
 
 
 
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Pete Seeger,
singer-songwriter
 
 
 
 
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle,
comedian, actor, writer, producer
 
 
 
 
One must take what comes, with laughter.
Olivia de Havilland,
actress
1916-2020
 
 
 
 
One can only discover what has already come into existence.
Shirley Hazzard,
writer
 
 
 
 
Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock,
musician, composer
 
 
 
 
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Stephen King,
writer
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
statesman, philosopher, lawyer