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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.― Roy T. Bennett
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. - Elmore Leonard
Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
