“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.”

“A Poem I Like:With a hand that is greater than mineshe gently makes my coarse life fineand all the reasons that meant the worldevaporate like smoke unfurled.How can one so lacking forcehouse the heart where dwells the sourceof power which turns the darkness liteturns deadly games to lover's ritesby Jack Edison”

“You can't even lose if you don't enter. And you never know; you just might win.”

“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”

“Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing”