Quotation of the Week: Author Unknown
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
–Author Unknown
(Source: @Quotes4Writers)
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
–Author Unknown
(Source: @Quotes4Writers)
“Hobbies? Oh, no! What would they possibly be? Even the idea is absurd. I am a tireless reader but I wouldn’t call reading a hobby. It’s a drive, a hunger, a thirst. If a day has to pass that I haven’t read I suffer.”
–Cynthia Ozick
Source: Rahel Musleah’s profile of Cynthia Ozick in Hadassah Magazine
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
–Gloria Steinem
(via @SarahSalway)
“I like being outspoken. I think that’s the way you should do it. I can be excessive. I know that. But more, in my mind, is always better than less as long as it is honest and from the heart, not some TMZ gotcha.”
–Buzz Bissinger
This quotation resonated for me. Strongly–and for reasons that are too complicated to get into here.
I read it within the first few pages of my first subscription issue of Creative Nonfiction, which arrived recently and features Lee Gutkind’s interview with Bissinger. I’m so glad that I’ve finally subscribed!
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
-Anton Chekhov
Source: Goodreads, which also told me that Sunday (January 29) was Chekhov’s birthday. He was born in 1860.