Quote of the week: February roundup

Look out how you use proud words.
Carl Sandburg, 1878 – 1967

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov, 1920 – 1992

It’s an honorable profession. Homer founded it. It’s not bad company you’re in when you make your living telling stories.
Stephen Ambrose, 1936 – 2002

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882