Quotes

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you, too, can become great” Mark Twain

“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way” – E.L. Doctorow

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader,- not that the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” –E.L. Doctorow

“There are no rules in writing. There never been, there never will be.”

-Doris Lessing

“The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea”

-Thomas Mann

“However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” –Jean Jacques Rousseau

“It’s always too early to quit.”

-Norman Peale

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I like to call your attention to the ordinary world and to notice the most ordinary object - and to find something special about it."

-Ted Kooser

A poem, he said, "is a piece of order. We live in a desperate, chaotic world" and to compose "a little square of words is exhilarating to me,"

- Ted Kooser