Kirk Norton

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― ― E.B. White

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

“All the worth-while things in life. All mixed up. Rooms in candle-light. Leisure. Colour. Travel. Books. Music. Pictures. People—all kinds of people. Work that you love. And growth—growth and watching people grow… That’s what I mean by beauty. I want Dirk to have it.”
― Edna Ferber, So Big

“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellent, almost revolting; a shouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Seminal Work on Gender and Mental Health