If there is a will, I hope there is money…
~Me

When asked, ”How do you write?” I invariably answer, ”one word at a time.”
~ Stephen King

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. ~ Edward Thomas

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

”Though lovers be lost love shall not.”
- Dylan Thomas

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~ Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~ Author Unknown

Ink surrounds me all the time
On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme
Quills ’ever scribbling in my head
Sometimes damnit I forget what they said.
Ink has settled into my fingerprints
But to keep the words I fear to rinse…
~ Terri Guillemets

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~ Arthur Polotnik

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. ~ Baltasar Gracián

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make. ~ Truman Capote

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~ James Michener

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart

~ Kahlil Gibran

”Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.” — Eric Zorn