I don’t know anything I’ve done for the human race, except possibly entertain a minute segment of it from time to time, and I can’t compare myself with Goethe, because I don’t know what he did for the race, either.
– Harold Ross
Tag: time
Quotable 491
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
Quotable 490
Inactivity is more detrimental than wasting your time on something that doesn’t go anywhere because it will lead to something else.
– Jon Favreau
Quotable 425
Writing doesn’t get easier with time; every novel is a first novel.
– John le Carré
haiku 541
doctor visit
second time’s the charm
for blood draw
haiku 527
first time back
only one masked
at the meeting
haiku 492
new calendar page
time to pretend
this blog still lives
Quotable 360
When I finish a first draft, it’s always just as much of a mess as it’s always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
– Michael Chabon
Quotable 354
Writing a book is like playing a chess game against your conscious, your subconscious, and your doubt all at the same time.
– Victoria Schwab
Quotable 314
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
– Duke Ellington