"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." --Philosopher Henri Bergson
"What isn't yet can still become." --German proverb
"I couldn't get anyone to even read it to reject it. ...You've got to stay at the table. If you walk away, nothing will ever happen." --Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." --Walter Elliott
"The most important quality of a writer is not talent but persistence." --Philip Freund
"Easy reading is damn hard writing." --Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why write? "... the afterglow can last for years if the work is published and other people profit from it. The lasting pleasure is not in their praise but in your knowledge that you have contributed something of value to the culture from which you derive your being."
--Ellen Gilchrist, The Writing Life
"The greatest thing I ever learned to do was read." --Michael Caine
"What to do with too much information is the great riddle of our time." --Theodore Zeldin
(For more like these: My Favorite Quotes 1 and Quotes 2)
About Me
- Deborah J. Lightfoot
- I began as a journalist, or at least that's what I got my degree in. After college, I worked for a newspaper, then as a magazine editor and feature writer. These days I earn my living as a freelance editor for a national nonprofit organization. I've written three award-winning books of history and biography. I'm a member of The Authors Guild. My newest work is a fantasy, WATERSPELL, an intricate, multi-layered series about a girl and the wizard who suspects her of being so dangerous to his world, he believes he'll eventually have to kill her ... which poses a problem for him, since he's fallen in love with her. Website: www.waterspell.net
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