"If you cannot write well, you cannot..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”

“Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'”

“I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)”

“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”