When you’re writing stories, you take pieces of reality and pieces of imagination and you put them all in a container like a kaleidoscope and you shake them up, and then you turn the bottom the way you do in a kaleidoscope until its the pattern that you want.
Judith Viorst
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 – 1919
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
Louisa May Alcott, 1832 – 1888
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown