We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are. Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case, but rather the endlessly astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life.
Wise Words: David Byrne
The world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe. … I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song.
Wise Words: R. K. Narayan
You become a writer by writing. It is a yoga.
Wise Words: Eleanor Roosevelt: mature person
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and, therefore, all of us need both love and charity.
Wise Words: Anne Rice
There are no rules [for writing]. It’s amazing how willing people are to tell you that you aren’t a real writer unless you conform to their clichés and their rules. My advice? Reject rules and critics out of hand. Define yourself. Do it your way. Make yourself the writer of your dreams.
Wise Words: Marisha Pessl
Life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on…. And you have no idea what you’ll do until you’re there.
Wise Words: Miguel de Cervantes
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Wise Words: Shel Silverstein
if you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. … If your work is weak and lacking so that it needs explanation, it isn’t enough, it isn’t clear enough. Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
Wise Words: Nelson Mandela: impact of speech
It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact upon the way people live and die.
Wise Words: Ann Davies
The only way anyone is ever cured of desiring nonsensical things is by getting the nonsensical things and then experiencing the unpleasant but educational consequences.
Jill J. Jensen 
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