“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.” ThinkingWritingYearsMorningSpecialProducePaintingFoolDecidedExperienceTricksArticlesMasterpieceSolidity Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.” LightMightHoursHalfMorningRocksDivineSweetFoolValleysMuseRailroads Author:John Ruskin
“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.” PeopleMenYoungChurchPoorMorningSawsConditionsStrangeFoolMarriedMen And WomenDelightEvery ManMerryGazing Author:Samuel Pepys
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.” MenActionLyingNightCultureGrowthMorningWiseProgressHe ManFoolVictoryConflictLaborEveningPolishAcquisitionExertionFriction Author:Frederick Douglass
“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.” IfsWritingTwoMatterHoursMorningFourOne ThingFoolBedNo Matter What Author:Kiese Laymon