// This script and many more are available free online at // The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com // Original: Peg Duggan (pegduggan@hotmail.com) // Begin dayName = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday") monName = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December") now = new Date Jan = new Array Jan[1] = "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
~Stephen King" Jan[2] = "People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.
Harlan Ellison" Jan[3] = "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde

And now brothers and sisters, what are we doing with our writing time today? It's time to make up our minds. It should be so perfectly simple to pick a thought and stick to it until we pulled it out of our minds. Perfectly, perfectly simple. We just have to do it, that's all.
Edna Staebler 1954" Jan[4] = "You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
(1916 - 1986)" Jan[5] = "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804 - 1881)" Jan[6] = "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett" Jan[7] = "My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell
(1887 - 1964)" Jan[8] = "Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David Sedaris" Jan[9] = "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg " Jan[10] = "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)" Jan[11] = "The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving" Jan[12] = "Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
Katherine Paterson,
The Spying Heart, 1989" Jan[13] = "Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton " Jan[14] = "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury" Jan[15] = "Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
Rhys Alexander" Jan[16] = "There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow" Jan[17] = "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short " Jan[18] = "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King " Jan[19] = "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
(1895 - 1985)" Jan[20] = "Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
John Keats
(1795 - 1821)" Jan[21] = "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh" Jan[22] = "We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874 - 1965) " Jan[23] = "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626)" Jan[24] = "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
William Strunk Jr.,
Elements of Style " Jan[25] = "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
(1877 - 1962)" Jan[26] = "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace
(65 BC - 8 BC) " Jan[27] = "Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1904 - 1991)" Jan[28] = "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler" Jan[29] = "If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kinsgley Amis" Jan[30] = "In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968)" Jan[31] = "Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
James Joyce
(1882 -1941) " Feb = new Array Feb[1] = "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E.L. Doctorow" Feb[2] = "There is no use whatever in trying to write a book unless you know that you must write that book or go mad, or perhaps die.
Robertson Davies" Feb[3] = "Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle" Feb[4] = "To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James" Feb[5] = "Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt " Feb[6] = "A confident manner is important;
computers can sense this.
Russ Harvey" Feb[7] = "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link" Feb[8] = "It is said that we have two ears and only one tongue,
to listen twice as much as we speak.
Khalil Khavari
Spiritual Intelligence" Feb[9] = "Wit is the salt of the conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt" Feb[10] = "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson" Feb[11] = "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Einstein" Feb[12] = "A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.
Isaac Asimov" Feb[13] = "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser" Feb[14] = "Humour is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks" Feb[15] = "Something of real quality will be recognozed somewhere, sooner or later.
Mimi Jones" Feb[16] = "What historians sell is understanding
Harold Pearson" Feb[17] = "Any authentic work of art must start with an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West

They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.
Michael Moore on librarians" Feb[18] = "History tells us who we are and how to behave.
William H. MacNeil" Feb[19] = "If you get the right idea in front of the right person at the right publishing house&you will find that most publishers, far from being unresponsive, will be pursuing you rather than the other way around.
John Boswell" Feb[20] = "Humour, in its simplest form, is the unexpected...The conjoining of unlikely elements.
S.J.Perlman" Feb[21] = "If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
James Rusell Lowell" Feb[22] = "Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Horace, 35-30 BC" Feb[23] = "Publishers are not necessarily either philanthropists or rogues...
As a working hypothesis, regard them as ordinary human beings trying to earn their living at an unusually difficult occupation.
Sir Stanley Unwin (1926)" Feb[24] = "If you can't describe a book in one or two pithy sentences that would make you or my mother want to read it, then of course you can't sell it.
Michael Kourda" Feb[25] = "The only test of a work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
Gerald Brenan" Feb[26] = "The proper use of language is to express, not to impress.
Patricia Westheimer" Feb[27] = "The best authors are always the severest critics of their own works; they revise, correct, file and polish them, till they think they have brought them to perfection.
Earl of Chesterfield, in a letter to his son,
May 6, 1751" Feb[28] = "Success is the child of Audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli" Feb[29] = "All writers are more or less crazy- and the only argument I'll listen to is
whether they were crazy to start with, or got that way from writing.
Allen Marple" Mar = new Array Mar[1] = "Nothing comes out right the first time. A first draft is an outline, nothing more.
James W. Blinn" Mar[2] = "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck" Mar[3] = "The man is most original who can adapt from the greatest number of sources.
Thomas Carlyle 1840" Mar[4] = "If I were writing a book, I think I would go down to the local library and read Publisher's Weekly<" + "/i> for a few weeks or months, because I would expect to find an article about an editor which would tell me that my book is for him or that it might not be for him.
Michael Korda" Mar[5] = "Authors do detailed research on their subject matter but seldom do any at all on which publishing house is appropriate for their work.
Walter W. Powell" Mar[6] = "I keep telling young writers I meet that if they want the sure road to success, for heaven's sake, write something that will make people laugh.
Bennett Cerf" Mar[7] = "Literature is perhaps the most powerful of the arts.
James T Farrell" Mar[8] = "Journalism becomes literature when it tells us not just what happened but what it was like.
L S Klepp" Mar[9] = "When dealing with a concept such as important<" + "/i>, one would be well advised to ask: "To whom?"
Fran Lebowitz 1978" Mar[10] = "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin 1863" Mar[11] = "Books through the ages have earned humanity's high regard as semi-sacred objects.
Richard Kluger" Mar[12] = "All writers are more or less crazy- and the only argument I'll listen to is whether they were crazy to start with, or got that way from writing.
Allen Marple" Mar[13] = "Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
Judy Blume" Mar[14] = "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius" Mar[15] = "The purpose of poetry is to contribute to man's happiness.
Wallace Stevens" Mar[16] = "There can be no such thing really, as too many books, only too few readers.
Editorial in The Nation<" + "/i>, Nov 20, 1982" Mar[17] = "Satirists are not supposed to be balanced. They're supposed to be unfair...It's part of the job description.
Garry Trudeau
[Doonesbury creator]" Mar[18] = "Journalism can only be literature when it's passionate.
Marguerite Duras" Mar[19] = "The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright dishonesty. It is the omission or deemphasis of important data. The definition of important, of course, depends on one's values.
Howard Zinn" Mar[20] = "Publishers are always on the lookout for a good book. This is something to keep in mind no matter how discouraging the prospect of finding a publisher is, no matter how many rejection slips you get, and no matter how overwhelming the odds seem.
Richard Balkin" Mar[21] = "Happy New Year!
Naw-Rúz is the first day of the new year. It coincides with the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, which usually occurs on 21 March.
Bahá'u'lláh" Mar[22] = "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein" Mar[23] = "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H.Auden" Mar[24] = "With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.
Thomas Buxton" Mar[25] = "With very few exceptions, every writer whose published work you have read or relished managed to capture your attention only after taking a fearsome beating of the ego.
George V. Higgins" Mar[26] = "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John Le Carré" Mar[27] = "The literary giants of tomorrow are probably being published by small presses today.
Karin Taylor" Mar[28] = "Reading maketh a full man.
Francis Bacon" Mar[29] = "Remember, and editor is not God, only a person with a certain viewpoint, certain taste; therefore, don't let rejection stop you from writing or sending out.
Toi Derricote" Mar[30] = "Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain" Mar[31] = "Faulty research is like a faulty septic tank. Sooner or later the evidence will surface and become embarrassing.
Rex Allen Smith" Apr = new Array Apr[1] = "Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Ivan Pavlov" Apr[2] = "A professional writer is a professional reviser.
John Long" Apr[3] = "Though laughter is his mode, the satrist is ...fundamentally a moralist.
Martin B. Battestin" Apr[4] = "The most important element in any movie is the screenwriter, his story and his words.
Liz Smith" Apr[5] = "Excel, to be masters of your circumference. First, by obtainin' mastery of your common sense This supreme wisdom clears a man's vision.
Rza (Wu Tang)" Apr[6] = "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox" Apr[7] = "Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
(1623-1662)" Apr[8] = "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson" Apr[9] = "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over, if you just sit there
Will Rogers" Apr[10] = "Great satire has always has some sort of moral underpinnings.
Gary Trudeau" Apr[11] = "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)" Apr[12] = "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein" Apr[13] = "Progress isn't made by early risers.
It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love<" + "/i> " Apr[14] = "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) " Apr[15] = "Better to write for yourself and have no public,
than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) " Apr[16] = "It's not enough to create magic.
You have to create a price for magic, too.
You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns" Apr[17] = "If writers stopped writing about what happened to them,
then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner" Apr[18] = "I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac
(1799-1850) " Apr[19] = "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.
You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one.
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov
(1920 - 1992) " Apr[20] = "It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts.
It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate " Apr[21] = "Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it;
write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart " Apr[22] = "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion (1934 - ) " Apr[23] = "If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) " Apr[24] = "The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
(1837 - 1921)" Apr[25] = "The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving
(1942 - )
" ... whom of all the people who had ever lived in Ur he would most want to meet "The person who invented writing," he said. And what would he tell this person? "You served the world. Anytime anyone anywhere sits down to write They are a child of Iraq."
Bruce Feiler" Apr[26] = "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) " Apr[27] = "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
(1818 - 1885) " Apr[28] = "Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
Katherine Paterson,
The Spying Heart, 1989 " Apr[29] = "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten (1908 - )" Apr[30] = "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer
must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein
(1918 - 1990) " May = new Array May[1] = "Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton " May[2] = "I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Brabazon
(1884–1964)" May[3] = "There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim" May[4] = "Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
Philip Roth" May[5] = "There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
Pliny the Younger
(62 AD - 114 AD)" May[6] = "Typos are very important to all written form.
It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Randy K. Milholland" May[7] = "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury
(1920 - )" May[8] = "At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
(1888 - 1959)" May[9] = "Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors
Rhys Alexander" May[10] = "There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow (1915 - )" May[11] = "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King (1947 - )" May[12] = "Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.,
The Elements of Style<" + "/i>" May[13] = "Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)" May[14] = "Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann" May[15] = "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
(1901 - 1954)" May[16] = "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote" May[17] = "Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
Charles B. Johnson" May[18] = "Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity,while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King" May[19] = "Once individuals link together they become something different... Relationships change us, reveal us, evoke more from us. Only when we join with others do our gifts become visible, even to ourselves.
Margaret Wheatley
and Myron Kallner-Robers" May[20] = "One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez" May[21] = "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anaïs Nin" May[22] = "Great is the art of the beginning, but greater the art of ending.
Thomas Fuller" May[23] = "The Ancient Mariner <" + "/i>would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.<" + "/i>.
Samuel Butler." May[24] = "The last thing one knows when wrtiting a book is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal" May[25] = "All the fun's in how you say a thing.
Robert Frost" May[26] = "Writers of fiction are collectors of useless informatin. They are the opposite of good, solid, wise citizens who collect good information and put it to good use. Fiction writers remember tiny little details, some of them almost malicious, but very telling.
William Trevor" May[27] = "Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
Jonathan Swift" May[28] = "If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
Henry Green" May[29] = "I always write a [short] story in one sitting. I started Flowering Judas <" + "/i>at seven p.m. and at one-thirty I was standing on a snowy windy corner putting it in a mailbox.
Katherine Anne Porter" May[30] = "If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.
James Baldwin" May[31] = "I make a list of titles after<" + "/i> I've finished the story or the book--sometimes as many as a hundred. Then I start eliminating them, sometimes all of them.
Ernest Hemingway" Jun = new Array Jun[1] = "First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about.
Revision is working with that knowledge, to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.
Bernard Malamud" Jun[2] = "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
from an email" Jun[3] = "The saying goes: The road to the house of a friend is never long; I agree,
but I have such a hard time getting out of the driveway.
Deborah Ranchuk" Jun[4] = "If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov" Jun[5] = "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde " Jun[6] = "Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.
Joe Harvey" Jun[7] = "Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.
Eddie Murphy" Jun[8] = "People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.
Harlan Ellison" Jun[9] = "I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom Stoppard " Jun[10] = "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick" Jun[11] = "There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.
Lawrence Watt-Evans" Jun[12] = "The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.
Albert Einstein " Jun[13] = "The title always comes first, to me and the reader. I've written many stories and articles just by doggedly following the title.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante" Jun[14] = "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" Jun[15] = "The chief merit of language is clearness, and we all know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
Galen" Jun[16] = "Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around..
Spider Robinson" Jun[17] = "Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock" Jun[18] = "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
E. B. White" Jun[19] = "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth" Jun[20] = "Writing is the flip side of sex- it's good only when it's over.
Hunter S. Thompson" Jun[21] = "Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald" Jun[22] = "Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
Ray Bradbury" Jun[23] = "History is a powerful instrument. At its best, it provides a perspective on the past and casts a light on the future. It populates human consciousness with heroes, saints and martyrs whose example awakens in everyone touched by it capacities they had not imagined they possessed. It helps make sense of the world – and of human experience. It inspires, consoles and enlightens. It enriches life. In the great body of literature and legend that it has left to humanity, history's hand can be seen at work shaping much of the course of civilization – in the legends that have inspired the ideals of every people since the dawn of recorded time, as well as in the epics of the Ramayana, in the exploits celebrated in the Odyssey and the Aeneid, in the Nordic sagas, in the Shahnameh, and in much of the Bible and the Qur'án.
God Passes By elevates this great work of the mind to a level ardently striven after but never attained in any of ages past.
Universal House of Justice, Century of Light (Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 2001 edition) p. 70" Jun[24] = "Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer" Jun[25] = "Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool.
Joseph Costello" Jun[26] = "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill" Jun[27] = "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr" Jun[28] = "What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall Smith" Jun[29] = "When in doubt, blow something up.
J. Michael Straczynski" Jun[30] = "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby" Jul = new Array Jul[1] = "The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
V. I. Lenin" Jul[2] = "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Buddha" Jul[3] = "The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
Larry Niven " Jul[4] = "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus" Jul[5] = "Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King" Jul[6] = "Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Goethe" Jul[7] = "A man will turn over half a library to make one book..
Samuel Johnson" Jul[8] = "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Sinclair Lewis" Jul[9] = "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" Jul[10] = "The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie" Jul[11] = "Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card" Jul[12] = "The best style is the style you don't notice.
Somerset Maugham" Jul[13] = "I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
John Updike" Jul[14] = "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Robert Louis Stevenson " Jul[15] = "Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern Ball " Jul[16] = "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626)" Jul[17] = "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time..The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein
(1918 - 1990)" Jul[18] = "By three methods we may learn technical writing: First by education, which is noblest; second by methodology, which is easiest; and third by planting your butt in a chair and pecking out the damn document, which is the bitterest.
Andrew Plato" Jul[19] = "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath" Jul[20] = "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion" Jul[21] = "Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely<" + "/i> when you mean very<" + "/i>; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
(1898 - 1963)" Jul[22] = "Whether or not you write well, write bravely.
Bill Stout" Jul[23] = "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift" Jul[24] = "A drama critic is a person who surprises a writer by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner" Jul[25] = "There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.
William Makepeace Thackeray" Jul[26] = "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela" Jul[27] = "Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ASK questions. If I had answers I'd be a politician.
Eugene Ionesco" Jul[28] = "The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Raymond Chandler" Jul[29] = "All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beecher" Jul[30] = "Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.
Colin Greenland" Jul[31] = "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton" Aug = new Array Aug[1] = "Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope Hawkins" Aug[2] = "They say time changes all things, but I found that you still have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol" Aug[3] = " I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard" Aug[4] = "It is the business of an artist to be exciting.
Gertrude Stein" Aug[5] = "So much for the facts; it is for the biographer to make the facts live. Should that high aim be achieved, it will be due not alone to the manner of presentation but to the manner of research.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Writing of Biography<" + "/i>" Aug[6] = "Life has no shape, artisically speaking, any more than grief has a shape, or jealousy, or love, or any of those large angry things. It is for the writer to find a shape, find boundaries, a circumference within which he may freely move according to his abilities. If he tries to encompass the universe within his book, he will surely get lost, and getting lost is a sin the experienced writer can never permit himself.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Writing of Biography<" + "/i>" Aug[7] = "Thousands of people desire<" + "/i> to write, but never actually do. To become a freelancer, your desire to write must be stronger than your desire to do any number of other things.
Moira Anderson Allen
Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer<" + "/i>" Aug[8] = "The only differentiation I make is between those who recognize there is a craft to learn and engage in doing what is necessary to learn it, and those who are satisified to write without engaging in that learning process.
Druzelle Cederquist" Aug[9] = "The deliberate use of the media to promote one's self and. at times, one's cause, can make you a public figure. As a writer, you become one at the very least when you start promoting your book, screen or stage play, or other creative works.
Ted Schwartz
The Complete Guide to Writing Biographies <" + "/i>" Aug[10] = "As a writer, I've seen the enemy. But as an editor, I've worn his face.
Jonathan Ball
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.77" Aug[11] = "The real truth is one thing, and the literary truth is another, and there is nothing more difficult than to want both truths to coincide.
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Writer's reality<" + "/i>" Aug[12] = "Writing is a reflexive activity that involves the totality of our physical and mental being. To write means to write myself, not in a narcissistic sense but in a deep collective sense. To write phenomenologically is the untiring effort to author a sensitive grasp of being itself--of that which authors us, of that which makes it possible to be and speak...in the first place.
Max van Manen
Researching Lived Experience<" + "/i> p.132" Aug[13] = "...always, always check the phone books and directories of thatt area and be sure you are not giving a character the name of a real person. Writing is fun. Litigation is not.
Shirley Byers Lalonde
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.219" Aug[14] = "If you think your poems are just naturally brilliant, you are probably a beginner. Good poetry isn't a flash of inspiration, but art.
Susan Ioannou
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.232" Aug[15] = "Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne" Aug[16] = "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe" Aug[17] = "The most important thing to remember about writing a community history is people<" + "/i>. As much as possible, tell your story through the actions of people. use anecdotes to bring them to life.
Cheryl macDonaldCanadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.262" Aug[18] = "Rejection never ends. It is part of the process of being a writer.
Ruth Latta
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.325" Aug[19] = "Performance is a huge part of a radio piece. Many great pieces of writing fall flat on the radio, or don't even make it air, because of the read.
Marjorie Doyle
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.346" Aug[20] = "Speech writing is part craft, part art and --when things go right--part magic. Without knowledge of the craft, the art and magic rarely happen.
Colin Moorhouse
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.349" Aug[21] = "As life became increasingly complex, we stopped believing that all of the skills required to survive in this world could be passed from parent to child or from teacher to student. Step-in-step with the evolution of product liability, technical writing became the first new writing style to appear in one hundred years.
Paul G. Cormack
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.358" Aug[22] = "Minutes are the official record of a meeting admissible in a court of law should the need arise. Therefore they must be correct, complete and unbiased.
Gill Foss
Canadian Writer's Guide -13th Ed.<" + "/i> p.363" Aug[23] = "If you haven't<" + "/i> marked up your manuscript a lot, you did a lazy job. Only God gets things right the first time.
Stephen King" Aug[24] = "...I know that craft--anycraft-- is not a matter of arcane magic but quite mundane know-how combined with perseverance and humility.
Joanna Higgins
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.43" Aug[25] = "Success won by the hero or heroine at the end of a valiant struggle against odds will will bring reader satisfaction. If you are writing to entertain, your reader will want a strong character who wins.
Phyllis a Whitney
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.62" Aug[26] = "Every time you ask a question, whether you are just chatting on the telphone, conversing at a party, or simply asking someone's opinion, you are conducting an interview.
Mary Crescenzo
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p. 338" Aug[27] = "There is only one reason to write a novel and that is because writing fiction is absolutely essential to one's well-being.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.85" Aug[28] = "Any writer who thinks he's smart when he baffles his readers, whether by using foreign phrases or obscure terminology, is the opposite.
Piers Anthony
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.174" Aug[29] = "At its best, a workshop can make you concentrate and put pen to paper, it can show you that other people have problems similar to yours, and it can give you a certain amount of confidence, But don't expect too much.
john Sladek
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.185 " Aug[30] = "The most important decision a novelist makes is whether to write in the first or third person.
Max Byrd
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.198" Aug[31] = "If it sends a cold shiver down one's spine it has done its job and done it well.
Edith Wharton" Sep = new Array Sep[1] = "A one-page query letter is the first step in selling your article to a magazine or newspaper. No matter how well you write, you need to market your work; otherwise, it may remain hidden gold.
Tom Jenkins
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.299" Sep[2] = "The first reader, the editor, needs all the help he can get, so try to make your pages easy to read and easy on the eyes.
Bob O'Sullivan
The Writer's Handbook -1990 Ed.<" + "/i> p.318 " Sep[3] = "Don't worry about people stealing an idea.
If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats
Howard Aiken

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
(unknown)" Sep[4] = "We desire that each chapter to be an entity, a tale that may be read aloud and the book laid down until next evening. We hope to devise chapter endings that will lead the reader on. As author, I have my private motto: Will the reader turn the page?<" + "/i>
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Writing of Biography<" + "/i>" Sep[5] = "The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success
Dr. Joyce Brothers" Sep[6] = "Regret for wasted time
is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley" Sep[7] = "Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
Samuel Johnson" Sep[8] = "If my reader does not feel as I felt when writing, then I have failed, no matter how hard I tried.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Writing of Biography<" + "/i>" Sep[9] = "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan" Sep[10] = "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Einstein" Sep[11] = "Don't write the story you think they want to listen to. Write the story you want to tell.
Susan Isaacs
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[12] = "Those half-started, or half-finished, stories that palgue every writer may just be the wedge into the deeper and richer story.
Merrill Joan Gerber
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[13] = "But I maintain that the essence of literature lies in its assimilation byt he ordinary folk, and that readablitiyis the first, not the last criterion for its merit.
Piers Anthony
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[14] = "Writing is a solitary activity that, alas, has nothing to do with social life,.
John Sladek
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[15] = "The opening is the most important part of the novel....The opening has to have that narrative hook, that grabber that makes a reader turn the page and become innediately absorbed in the story.
Willo Davis Roberts
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[16] = "Our book has a beginning and an ending--but then so, for example, has Wednesday. On Wednesday, the sun rises as sets. Yet if you wish people to be interested in what you did on Wednesday, you have to meet with trouble on Wednesday. You have to meet an obstacle and conquer it. Or, if you prefer tragedy for your Wednesday story, you can let the obstacle conquer you, and leave your reader dissolved in tears.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Writing of Biography<" + "/i>" Sep[17] = "I have always found humor to be not only compatible with but an enhancement of suspense.
Barbara Michaels
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i> " Sep[18] = "The key to a successful novel is to capture and hold the interest of the reader till the last page, whteher you want to write contemporary, historical, fantasy-adventure, or science-fiction.
Laurie McBain
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[19] = "Well-developed characters have a way of taking charge of a story and leading the writer in directions not yet anticipated. Often they change details, and somtimes they cause major alterations to the intended plot line.
Elmer Kelton
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Sep[20] = "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake " Sep[21] = "A day without laughter is a day wasted.
from an email" Sep[22] = "I believe that human experience can be lived on four planes: the arational, the irrational, the rationa, and the supranational.
...An arational state of being is one in which human reason is irrelevant.
...An irrational state of being is very human.
...Rational thought is expressed by language.
...A supranational state of being goes beyond logic but is based ont it.
Rita Mae Brown
Starting From Scratch<" +"/i> pp.113-114 " Sep[23] = "A screenplay is a strategy for a movie.
Lawrence D. Cohen" Sep[24] = "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.
Pearl S. Buck" Sep[25] = "Verbs blast you down the highway. If you want to get your black belt in boredom, load your sentences with variations of the verb to be.<" + "/i>
Rita Mae Brown
Starting From Scratch<" +"/i> p.67" Sep[26] = "The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead.
William Zinsser
On Writing Well<" +"/i> p.65" Sep[27] = "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Albert Camus" Sep[28] = "You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories.
The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
Larry Niven " Sep[29] = "Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murikiness has crept into their style and how it obstructs what they are trying to say. If you give me an article that runs to eight pages and I tell you to cut it to four, you'll howl and say it can't be done. Then you go home and do it, and it will be infinitely better. After that comes the hard part: cutting it to three.
William Zinsser
On Writing Well<" +"/i> p.19" Sep[30] = "Describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons. First it forces you to make sure you<" + "/i> know how it works. Then it forces you to make sure that the reader will understand it as clearly as you do
William Zinsser
On Writing Well<" +"/i> p.134 " Oct = new Array Oct[1] = "Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
...Our national tendency is to inflate and thereby sound important.
...But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a swhort word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure about who is doing what---these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur, ironically, in proportion to education and rank.

William Zinsser
On Writing Well<" +"/i> p.7" Oct[2] = "Writing, however, is one of the most powerful tools that science education possesses; a student can reason his way with words towards the solution of a problem and his teacher can watch him do it, or not do it.
William Zinsser
Writing To Learn<" +"/i> p.203" Oct[3] = "A poet is somebody who writes poems down and reads them, if only to his dog; and I've never met a poet in Canada who wasn't trying or hoping to get his stuff broadcast to more than dogs.
Earle Birney
The Creative Writer<" + "/i> p.12" Oct[4] = "Of all the creative activities of man, beyond the sexual drive that perpetuates our species, the making of art is the most socially important.
Earle Birney
The Creative Writer<" + "/i> p.43" Oct[5] = "Humor is the secret weapon of the nonfiction writer. It's secret because so few writers realize that it is often their best tool---and sometimes their only tool---for making an important point.
William Zinsser
On Writing Well<" +"/i> p.183" Oct[6] = "A book still sells by word of mouth. You can be sliced and diced from the Atlantic to the Pacific and have a runaway best seller.
Rita Mae BrownStarting From Scratch<" +"/i> p. 156" Oct[7] = "Never postpone the writing, or there will come a day when you can no longer write.
Earle Birney
The Creative Writer<" + "/i> p.58" Oct[8] = "Neither the premise nor any other part of a play has a separate life of its own. All must blend into an harmonious whole.
Lagos Egri
The Art of Dramatic Writing<" + "/i> p.31" Oct[9] = "The more we know about the man, the more we shall know about the mood, locale, atmosphere, background, and plot.
It would seem,then, that what we want to expose is the character of whom we are writing.
Lagos Egri
The Art of Dramatic Writing<" + "/i> p.235" Oct[10] = "If all this leaves you convinced at the end that writers are mad, dissatisified, rebellious, restless, word-obsessed, emotional non-conformists, this is partly what I've been trying to say all these times. I hope, however, that you have also come to agree with me that the artist-writer is on life's side nevertheless, and essential to its victory.
Earle Birney
The Creative Writer<" + "/i> p.83" Oct[11] = "Writing is thinking on paper. anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.
William Zinsser
Writing To Learn<" +"/i> p.11" Oct[12] = "One of the obligations of a writer is to say or sing all that he or she can,
to deal with as much of the world as possible to him or her in language.
Denise Levertov" Oct[13] = "There is only one reason to write a novel and that is becasue it is absolutely essential to one's well-being.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Writer's Handbook 1900<" + "/i>" Oct[14] = "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein" Oct[15] = "Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love.
You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury" Oct[16] = "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson" Oct[17] = "I am not an eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell " Oct[18] = "To choose is also to begin.
Starhawk" Oct[19] = "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin" Oct[20] = "Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Virgil Thomson " Oct[21] = "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote " Oct[22] = "Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
Charles B. Johnson " Oct[23] = "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem " Oct[24] = "Everything that irritates us about another can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.
Carl Jung" Oct[25] = "We have no right to consume happiness without producing it.
Will Rogers" Oct[26] = "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison" Oct[27] = "Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin" Oct[28] = "It's never too late in fiction or in life--to revise.
Nancy Thayer" Oct[29] = "As your experience grows you will find that revising is pleasurable,
even though its purpose is the discovery of your own failings.
Jacques Barzun" Oct[30] = "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk, MD" Oct[31] = "When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
Coco Chanel" Nov = new Array Nov[1] = "If you are not failing now and again , it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody Allen" Nov[2] = "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen..
John Steinbeck" Nov[3] = "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful concerned individuals
can precipitate change in the world and indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Meade" Nov[4] = "Poetry is a renovation of experience.
Wallace Stevens" Nov[5] = "The power of the sword is mighty; the power of the pen is forever.
Anon" Nov[6] = "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him
and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington" Nov[7] = "The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can't be done,
is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Henry Emerson Fosdick" Nov[8] = "Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much.
We're all on the road to the grave-but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
Robert Orben" Nov[9] = "It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph" Nov[10] = "True genius lies not in doing extraordinary things,
but in doing things extraordinarily well.
Unknown" Nov[11] = "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley" Nov[12] = "God can't steer a parked car.
Anon" Nov[13] = "We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas.
We know we don't know.
Stephen King" Nov[14] = "You never know what you will learn till you start writing.
Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brooknere" Nov[15] = "You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Dr. Wayne Dyer" Nov[16] = "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is
to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke" Nov[17] = "When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright" Nov[18] = "Writing, like making love, is more fun when you know what you're doing.
Eileen Jensen" Nov[19] = "Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez" Nov[20] = "Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith" Nov[21] = "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Einstein" Nov[22] = "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley" Nov[23] = "If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
Cynthia Ozick" Nov[24] = "Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
Samuel Johnson" Nov[25] = "A country free enough to examine its own conscience is a land worth living in,
a nation to be envied.
Prince Charles" Nov[26] = "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth" Nov[27] = "Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell" Nov[28] = "It's never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot" Nov[29] = "To choose a word and place it on a page, is to choose a dream and bring it to reality.
Kate Clifford" Nov[30] = "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers" Dec = new Array Dec[1] = "I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Swope" Dec[2] = "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde" Dec[3] = "Nothing is quite as embarassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Anon" Dec[4] = "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius" Dec[5] = "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Attributed to Albert Einstein" Dec[6] = "I believe poetry should be a global adventure, a journey without borders.
Richard L. Provencher" Dec[7] = "Prejudice is what fools use for reason.
Voltaire" Dec[8] = "Free verse? You might as well sleep in a ditch and call it free architecture<" + "/i>!
G.K. Chesterton " Dec[9] = "Everything has rhythm. Everything Dances.
Maya Angelou" Dec[10] = "I am saying as you must say, too, that in order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been
Ella Baker" Dec[11] = "If you don't argue with me, I don't know what I think.
Alan Watts" Dec[12] = "We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different
John Fire Lame Deer, Lakota Tribe" Dec[13] = "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
1876-1944" Dec[14] = "One sign of a born writer is his gift for finding, or (sometimes) inventing authentically interesting language.
John Gardner" Dec[15] = "DONE is my favourite word.
Deborah Ranchuk" Dec[16] = "If it can't be read out loud, it's no good.
John Braine,
Writing a Novel<" + "/i>, 1974
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Janet Flanner" Dec[17] = "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
Cyril Connolly
Enemies of Promise<" + "/i>, 1938" Dec[18] = "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman Melville,
Moby Dick<" + "/i>, 1831" Dec[19] = "The only end of writing is to enable readers to better enjoy life or better…endure it.
Mark Jacobson 1998" Dec[20] = "Journalism allows its readers to witness history;
fiction gives its readers the opportunity to experience it.
John Hersey,
The Atlantic Monthly<" + "/i>, 1949" Dec[21] = "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost" Dec[22] = "Clearly, books can be forces for both good and bad ... Books are dynamic and powerful instruments, tools and weapons.
Robert B. Downs" Dec[23] = "There's nothing that can stimulate interest in a book as quickly as when someone tries to ban it.
Mike Royko" Dec[24] = "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein" Dec[25] = "Wherefore, O ye beloved of the Lord, bestir yourselves, do all in your power to be as one, to live in peace, each with the others: for ye are all the drops from but one ocean, the foliage of one tree, the pearls from a single shell, the flowers and sweet herbs from the same one garden.
'Abdu'l-Bahá" Dec[26] = "The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
Aristotle" Dec[27] = "If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time,
no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
Orson Scott Card" Dec[28] = "Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Charles de Lint" Dec[29] = "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt" Dec[30] = "Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky.
My pile of books,
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard,
By the time I read them.
Arnold Lobel" Dec[31] = "They say time changes all things, but I found that you still have to change them yourself.
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"" + Mar[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 3) document.write("
"" + Apr[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b <" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 4) document.write("
"" + May[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b <" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 5) document.write("
"" + Jun[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b <" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 6) document.write("
"" + Jul[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 7) document.write("
"" + Aug[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 8) document.write("
"" + Sep[now.getDate()] + "" <" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 9) document.write("
"" + Oct[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 10) document.write("
"" + Nov[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") if (now.getMonth() == 11) document.write("
"" + Dec[now.getDate()] + ""<" + "/b><" + "/center>") // End --> }