Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse, while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Barbara Kingsolver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver

Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:

This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,

So, in the end, he could not change the tragic habits

This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

Robert Graves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves

Fame is a bee.

It has a song –

It has a sting –

Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

The poet is a faker

Who’s so good at his act

He even fakes the pain

Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

The wisest of wise men knows that he knows not; only a fool thinks he knows.

Spanish proverb

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose upsides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Tony Schwartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schwartz_(author)

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee