"Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that – all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, thi..."
- Celine Kiernan
"Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together."
- Tenaya Jayne
"I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing autho..."
- George Bernard Shaw
"It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places."
"Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow."
"Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens."
"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
"As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin."
"When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter."