Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Anton Chekhov: art
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Wise Words: Mortimer J. Adler
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Wise Words: Irwin S. Cobb
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
Wise Words: Honore de Balzac
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Wise Words: George Bernard Shaw: why?
You see things, and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
Wise Words: Julia Cameron: start
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Wise Words: Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Wise Words: William Strunk & E. B. White: writing
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
Wise Words: Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
