“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… it’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless.”
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- Harper Lee
Love
"She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."
- Harper Lee
Love
"Most people are nice when you finally see them."
- Harper Lee
Compassion
"Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
- Harper Lee
Compassion
"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee
Courage
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity