quotations!

[firecat]

Go to this page and refresh until you get a total of five quotations that are meaningful to you, or mean something about you, or you agree with them, or whatever criteria you choose, I guess. Then post those five.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I can't agree with your first quote at all. I know too many writers who are absolutely delightful to sit around and chat with!

[firecat]

I don't agree with it either, but I certainly felt that way when I was in the midst of wrangling with the book I just finished.