This post is an opportunity to sample a few quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson, around whom there has always been a lot of debate as to...

We all know the first part of this aphorism but how many of us are familiar with the second part? It completely changes the complexion of...

I only wish that someone could prove to us something calming which comforted us, so that we stopped feeling guilty or unhappy and that we...

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set...

Dear fellow artists: it comes to all of us, sooner or later, the tremendous heart-sickness and revulsion against the world. There is...

Jack Kerouac is one of those rare writers who not only pioneered a new literary style, but was self-aware enough to set down its guiding...

If ever a writer had the gift of the Elf-minstrels it was J. R. R Tolkien. His astonishing ability to conjure up fantastic lands and...

Every serious writer, whether they will admit it or not, aspires towards the kind of work that might qualify as genius. Even if they...