Deri Ross

“Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.”
― Dave Barry

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nurturing Family in a Turbulent World

“Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.”
― E.B. White

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”
― E.B. White, Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976