Shelestova Quotes & Sayings

I want to... have fun with writing again. Enjoy my work, enjoy playing with the language and characters like a sculptor plays with clay. But there's this manic focus on numbers--how many books have you written and how many have you sold and it's all push, push, push, and no time for reflection--but at heart, books are about dreaming... which is just the opposite. So I don't know...
M.M. Bennetts comment to Nancy Bilyeau as related in Nancy's tribute "M.M. Bennetts: The Closest Friend I Never Met — M.M. Bennetts

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. — Jim Fowler

A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. — Robert Rauschenberg

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. — Marya Mannes

Be confident, not certain — Eleanor Roosevelt