Joretta Creighton Quotes

#1. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Thomas Gainsborough

#2. Gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity as individuals. To benefit the monster of Humanity-as-a-Whole, they even fought wars - which killed off humanity, individually, at a fearful rate.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#3. Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. 3

Stephen King

#5. A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

Helen Steiner Rice

#6. Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Johnny Rich

#7. After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.
Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one.

Uma Nnenna

#8. When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

Tyson Chandler

#9. Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Tucker Max