J. Travis Grundon > J.'s Quotes

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“You fail only if you stop writing.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Hey baby, when I write, I'm the hero of my shit.”
― Charles Bukowski