Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age
Memory is the only friend of grief.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
The stitch of a book is its words.
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?