Monday Quote

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

- Henry Miller

Monday Quote

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

- Tom Robbins

Monday Quote

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

- Stefan Zweig

Monday Quote

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

- Lawrence Durrell

Monday Quote

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

- George Orwell

Monday Quote

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Monday Quote

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

Monday Quote

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

- Ernest Hemingway

Monday Quote

Gardens are not made by singing "Oh how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

- Rudyard Kipling

Monday Quote

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

- Lord Byron

Monday Quote

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Aldous Huxley

Monday Quote

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

- WB Yeats

Monday Quote

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

- John Keats

Monday Quote

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

- Isaac Newton

Monday Quote

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- John W. Gardner

Monday Quote

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

- Abraham Lincoln

Monday Quote

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Andre Gide

Monday Quote

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

- Toni Morrison

Monday Quote

Writing is the only profession when no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

- Jules Renard

Monday Quote

Life: that thing that prevents us from doing our art, and makes our art worth doing.

- Unknown