Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

#840

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

#839

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

#838

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

#837

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

#836

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

#835

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

#834

Albert Einstein • Guy de Maupassant • Henry David Thoreau • Voltaire • Confucius • Mike Monteiro • Friedrich Nietzsche • Kurt D. Cobain • Zig Ziglar • John Maeda • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • anonymous • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Martin Luther King Jr. • Elwyn Brooks White • Steven Wright • Marshall McLuhan • Kahlil Gibran • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Winston Churchill • Pablo Picasso • Oscar Wilde • Deepak Chopra • Mahatma Gandhi

Jessamyn West

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