Recent content by Paul Whybrow

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." Oscar Wilde

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. Sigmund Freud

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Golda Meir

The Bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues and tinges And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. Nancy Byrd Turner

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. Octavia E. Butler

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” Ursula K. Le Guin

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. Estée Lauder

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. Socrates

The moment a woman starts writing her truth she becomes dangerous. Elif Shafak

You come from dust and you will return to dust. That’s why I don’t dust – it could be someone I know. Anonymous

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. Maude Adams

You get used to the dark, you realize the ghosts are all friendly. Jack Kerouac

'Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head.' Monica Dickens

'The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof lie detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.' Ernest Hemingway

"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack." Brandon Sanderson