//quote array
	quoteList = new Array();
	
	quoteList[0] = "Words are like x-rays, if they are used properly, they can go through anything. -- Aldous Huxley";
	quoteList[1] = "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca";
	quoteList[2] = "Writing is like cooking...if you spill something, you should make it look like part of the act. -- John Keeble";
	quoteList[3] = "Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. -- Stephen Leacock";
	quoteList[4] = "Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. -- Albert Camus ";
	quoteList[5] = "Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. -- John Osborne ";
	quoteList[6] = "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -- Mark Twain";
	quoteList[7] = "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. -- Dorothy Parker ";
	quoteList[8] = "I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.  -- Anna Quindlen ";
	quoteList[9] = "It is a curious thing to hope to find insight in a small box on a web-page, isn't it? -- Paul Knox";
	
	
	
	//randomization
	var now = new Date();
	var secs = now.getSeconds();
	var raw_random_number = Math.random(secs);
	var random_number = Math.round(raw_random_number * (quoteList.length));

	if (random_number == quoteList.length){random_number = 0}
	
	//set quote
	var quote = quoteList[random_number];