Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! – Sholem Asch

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! – Sholem Asch
An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all ones experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. – Sholem Asch
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. – Sholem Asch
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg