“When action grows unprofitable, gather information;
when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
          – Ursula K. Le Guin

“The first draft of anything is shit.” – Ernest Hemingway

“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
       – Isaac Asimov

“I learned to make my mind large, like the universe is large, so there is room for paradoxes.”
      -Maxine Hong Kingston

“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the only thing you have to offer.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”
– Ellen Goodman, American journalist (1941 – )

“A writer’s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.” – Ethel Wilson

“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into cream?” – Katherine Patterson

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. . . The wait is simply too long.” – Leonard Bernstein