“The call to write does not respect background or experience.” WritingDoeBackgrounds Author:Allen Wier
“The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.” TryingArtMomentsCease Author:Allen Wier
“Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.” RememberMemoriesDramaticTensePresent Tense Author:Allen Wier
“Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.” WorldLanguageTools Author:Alice McDermott
“A good story needs only a good storyteller.” NeedsStoriesStorytellerGood Story Author:Richard Bausch
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?” KnowsSunGeeseJust Move On Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.” IfsMenFirstsPersonsDoeEnoughAsksInterestDifferencesWealthSafeLimitsEssentialsBarns Author:Seneca the Younger
“It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.” MenMayMeanMomentsLawValuesLinesTakenFateDivineDutyAmbitionObstaclesSettingSettingsLuxuryContentmentConformityAvariceGreatest ObstaclesDivine WillResigning Author:Seneca the Younger