Maya Angelou
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Margaret Atwood
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
Mary Shelley
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Jean Marzollo
"I spy with my little eye something that is..." Jean Marzollo, best-known for the bestselling children's series I Spy, passed away on Tuesday, April 10 at the age of 75. Over the course of her life, she wrote more than 150 books – "some factual, some fanciful, all...
Quote of the Week | George North, the Original Bard?
In February, Shakespearean purists sat a little straighter in their chairs. Independent researcher Dennis McCarthy and English scholar June Schlueter had just announced what Michael Witmore, the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, called a...
Quote of the Week | Gerald Murnane
Chances are you've never heard of this author or the South Australian town he comes from. The Paris Review called the man "one of the most original and brilliant writers at work today," and The New Yorker called his third novel, The Plains, written in 1982 and...