Quotation Saturday

WRITING
 

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
~Helen Hayes
 

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talk about writing or themselves.
~Lillian Hellman
 

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
~Ernest Hemingway
 

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones.
~Stephen King
 

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'. Otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
~C. S. Lewis
 

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. 

~Robert Anton Wilson
 

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. 

~Oscar Wilde


PATIENCE

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. 

~Immanuel Kant

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." 

~ Immanuel Kant
 

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 

~ Winston Churchill
 

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
~Helen Keller