"May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time...'"
— Author unknown
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The mad musings of a working writer
"May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time...'"
— Author unknown
"All that you are becoming requires all that you have been."
— Jan Whitener, author and medium.
"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
— P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), author.
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Founding Father.
"People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it."
— Harlan Ellison (b. 1934), author.
"Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once."
— Susan Wittig Albert (b. 1940), author.
"What a writer wants to do is not what he does."
— Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), author.
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
— Lin Yutang (1895-1976), writer and inventor.
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
— George Edward Moore (1873-1958), philosopher.