It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me. "
Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.
There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost liftable with one hand, and quite tippy, and is being piloted by a 12-year-old, but it is the true feeling of having your life in someone else's hands, and it's very precarious.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
. . . unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?