22 August 2022
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
— Octavia Butler
22 August 2022
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence — whether much that is glorious — whether all that is profound — does not spring from disease of thought — from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
― Edgar Allan Poe
21 August 2022
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
― Joan Jett
21 August 2022
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
― Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
20 August 2022
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all.
—Emily Dickinson
20 August 2022
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
1) Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
2) Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
3) Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
4) Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
5) Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
6) Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero