“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius,”

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

 
 
 
 

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for,”

— Alice Walker

 
 
 
 

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be,”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

 
 
 
 

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down,”

— Ray Bradbury

 
 
 
 

"....but it cannot be a mistake to have cared...it cannot be an error to have tried....it cannot be incorrect to have loved,"

— Nikki Giovanni

 
 
 
 

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character,”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson