Recent content by Paul Whybrow

"May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” Author unknown

"We all of us have limited amounts of energy, and I am sure the people who are successful have learned, either by instinct or consciously, to use their energies well instead of spilling them about. And this has to be different for every person, writers or otherwise. I know writers who go to...

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.” Publilius Syrus

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn

“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” Orison Swett Marden

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential. Shaun King

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." Oscar Wilde

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. Sigmund Freud

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Golda Meir

The Bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues and tinges And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. Nancy Byrd Turner

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. Octavia E. Butler

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” Ursula K. Le Guin