Cross posting between here and AO3@ritualdisappointment & tumblr@fingertrash.

May 20, 2016: Spring cleaning.

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
- Anne Rice

"Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking."
- Antonio Machado

"What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music words make."
- Truman Capote

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
- Stephen King

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me, I'm always interested in movies that scar."
- David Fincher, director: Fight Club

"February. Get ink, shed tears. // Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, ..." (etc.)
- Boris Pasternak, poem: February

"You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they treat people they don't have to treat well."
- MI3

"If you've written anything you're a writer. If you've published a book you're an author."
- elysiansunshine (here)

"Somebody gets into trouble, then they get out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
- Terry Pratchett