Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work

 “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”

― Gustave Flaubert

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary