Welcome
What you are…
You are what you settle for.
—Janis Joplin
From Chaos…
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Value…
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which doesn’t make a profit is without value.
– Arthur Miller
What Counts?
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
Why Write?
You write in order to change the world. If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
—James Baldwin
Creativity
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
– Albert Einstein
Franklin’s Rules
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
—Benjamin Franklin
Capote’s Rules
I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
—Truman Capote
Hemingway’s Rules
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
Courage
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller
