SHIRLEY! AIRPLANE! We'll Miss You, Leslie Nielsen

Day 30--John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Day 31--Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Day 32--William Blake

There is no mistake so great
as the mistake
of not going on.

Day 33--Hart Crane

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Day 34--Francine Prose

Like most--maybe all--writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

day 35--Pearl S. Buck

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

day 36--Stephen King

If you don't have time to read,
you don't have th time
or the tools
to write.

Day 37--Colette

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Day 38--Margaret Atwood

We have all been little pitchers with big ears, shooed out of the kitchen when the unspoken is being spoken, and we have probably all been tale-bearers, blurters at the dinner table, unwitting violators of adult rules of censorship. Perhaps this is what writers are: those who never kicked the habit. We remained tale-bearers. We learned to keep our eyes open, but not to keep our mouths shut.