"Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading."

--

Horace

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes

“I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.”
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
“In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.”
“It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press
“I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, "I'm an actor." I have it in my blood. It's in every pore of my body. There's always something awesome about every project, even with the worst ones. I try to remind myself every time I think about complaining that there are way worse jobs than mine.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.”
“At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.”

You may also like:

Catullus
Poet
Homer
Author
Juvenal
Poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Ovid
Poet
Propertius
Poet
Sappho
Lyric poet
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Virgil
Poet