Scott Herford

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“If someone tells you calories don’t matter, they have no credibility. But if someone tells you calories are all that matters, they have even less.”
― Martin Berkhan, The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”
― Plato, Phaedo