Month: July 2023

“Words are clothes that thoughts wear.” – Samuel Butler

“Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers


“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until little drops of blood form on your forehead.” – Gene Fowler

“Opportunity…often, it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” – Napoleon Hill

“When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. But when you write, your words echo down the ages.” – Bud Gardner

“Talent is long patience.” – Gustave Flaubert

“When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” – Natalia Ginsburg

“Nothing splendid has been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” – John Steinbeck