“Be orderly in your normal life so you can be violent and original in your work.”

-French novelist Gustave Flaubert in a letter to Gertrude Tennant, 1876

I just wish…

“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”

-Sir David Attenborough

To experience, to engage, to endeavor…

“To experience, to engage, to endeavor, rather than to watch and to wonder — that’s where the real meat of life is to be found.”

“Being a writer is like being a cockroach – there’s a lot of competition, though one rarely sees a skinny cockroach.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”

―Stephen King, On Writing

“Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.”

–David Ogilvy