Take Your Time

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
~ Earl Nightingale*


Ex Libris Stamp created by A**Pocket Productions

*Via Rosi on The Write Stuff

Two Out of Three?

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
~ William Faulkner*

Czechoslovakian bookplate
via Pinterest

*Via Rosi at The Write Stuff

Straightforward Writing

“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.”
~ H.W. Fowler*

Raven bookplate available from Florentine Collections

*Via Rosi Hollinbeck on The Write Stuff

Artistic Near Misses

"Maybe you’ve made something mediocre–there’s plenty of that in any artist’s cabinets–but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.”
~ Sally Mann*



Don Quixote bookplate by Vilnis Resnis

*Via Rosi Hollinbeck at The Write Stuff

Writing is Easy

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
~ Mark Twain*

Pastoral bookplate  by J. Winfred Spenceley (Joseph Winfred),
Courtesy Pratt University Libraries,

*Via Rosi Hollinbeck