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  • May 18th, 2012 11:47am

    People that changed my life in the most inspiring ways: Stephen King.

    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

    “There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words — the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers who won’t do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”

    “When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time,” and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That’s all. One stone at a time. But I’ve read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”

    “It is the tale, not he who tells it.” 


  • May 17th, 2012 5:14pm

    Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens…. My grandfather would say we’re part of something incredibly wonderful – more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don’t lose our place in it.

    Robert Fulghum

  • May 16th, 2012 1:58pm

    For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

    — Ernest Hemingway

  • May 15th, 2012 5:56pm

    Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

    H. G. Wells – The Time Machine

  • May 15th, 2012 2:24pm

    There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it—literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.

    Wernher von Braun, quoted in ‘Space: Reach for the Stars’, Time magazine, 17 feburary 1958