| "You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie |
| "Originality does not consist in saying what no one else has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself." James Stephens, Irish poet and writer (1882-1950). |
| "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning." Igor Stravinsky |
| "..nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time —and whenever we do it, we are not poets." e.e. cummings |
| "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." Lord Byron |
| "It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out." Alexander Pope |
| "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
| "The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think." Salman Rushdie |
| "Mega-bestseller readers want to be able to read and read and read - they do not want to ponder any truly unexpected revelations. Reality might lie out there, but that is not why they are reading." Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art, 2003. |
| "How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper." Olive Schreiner |
| "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein |
| "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Edgar Allan Poe, ''Eleanora''. |
