Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Quality vs. Quantity?

"...quantity produces quality. Only if you do a lot will you ever be any good. If you do very little, you'll never have quality of idea or quality of output. The excitement and creativity comes from a whole lot of doing--hoping you'll be suddenly struck by lightning."-Ray Bradbury Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 9, 2004

I don't think I will ever master the art of indifference....

...not that I really want too. I agree with Mr. Joyce that the artist/writer is interwoven with his or her work in a way that is intrinsic and inextricable. Yet I am not sure that the writer is inherently indifferent....And many of us believe that God is everything but indifferent! "The artist, like... Sign in to see full entry.

Happiness?

"If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 8, 2004

..defining success....

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." Erma Bombeck Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 7, 2004

'Imagination' is where we all begin as writers....

"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."-Brenda Ueland Sign in to see full entry.

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