A word is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just begins

to live that day.

- Emily Dickinson



And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

- William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)



Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.

- William Faulkner



Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

- Robert A. Heinlein



The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

- Ursula K. Le Guin



A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Emily Dickinson