Quotation – May 31, 2017

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Kaiku

Quotation – May 29, 2017

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

 

Alien Innkeeper (Amazon)

Notable Scientist – Dr. Vera Rubin

Dr. Vera Rubin

July 1928 – December 2016

A visionary astronomer who played an instrumental role in confirming the existence of dark matter, Dr. Vera Rubin’s contributions to science will not be forgotten. A trailblazer with a passion for uncovering the unknown, she advocated for the role of women in science while expanding our understanding of the galaxy.

 

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Quotation – May 26, 2017

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

 

Kaiku

Quotation – May 24, 2017

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you’re going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

John Grisham

Alien Innkeeper

Quotation – May 23, 2017

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time.

Leonard Bernstein

An Alien Perspective

Quotation – May 17, 2017

Today is mine. It is unique. Nobody in the world has one exactly like it. It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potential.
I can fill it with joyous memories or ruin it with fruitless worry. If painful recollections of the past come into my mind, or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.
They cannot spoil today for me. It is mine.

ANON

Quotation – May 15, 2017

The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change–and we instinctively avoid it.

E.B. White

Alien Innkeeper

Look what arrived!

Quotation – May 14, 2017

The most important thing is you can’t write what you wouldn’t read for pleasure. It’s a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can’t say you’re going to write romance when you don’t even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it.

And you have to be driven. You have to have the three D’s: drive, discipline and desire. If you’re missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it’s going to be really hard to get anything done.

Nora Roberts