Quotes
A Simple Reflection For the End of the Year
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people [...]
Quotes on Simplicity and Writing
Some quotes on simplicity as a contribution to this month’s theme.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life (Winston Churchill)
Quotes on Experimenting, Writing, Art and Life
Some quotes on experimenting as a contribution to this month’s theme.
Life is ‘trying things to see if they work’ (Ray Bradbury)
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly [...]
5 Great Quotes on (Writing with) Responsibility
As a warm up to this month’s theme here’s a selection of quotes on writing with responsibility:
You are not only responsible for what you say, but what you do not say
Martin Luther
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Quotes On Writing And Freedom #5: Personal Freedom
Writing is a form of personal freedom.
It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
