“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”-Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
One day, I hope that the deaths of famous authors is considered new worthy in this country. Oh, who am I kidding? Suri Cruise visiting Disney World is, and will remain, way more important. Carry on.
“I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within.”-Eudora Welty
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves-you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”-Ray Bradbury
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”-Margaret Fuller
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”-O. Henry
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”-Oscar Wilde
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”-Ernest Hemingway
“She reads Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”-Eudora Welty
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