“Writing is a design, often a portrait, nearly always a revelation.” –Colette

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Somerset Maugham

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  — Issac Asimov

Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” 

–Albert Einstein

“Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.”  

            Paul Bourget,  French novelist, poet and critic