Quotes
Reading
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WritingFill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Annie Proulx There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. Beatrix Potter A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. N. Scott Momaday The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in. Henry Green I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Audrey Niffenegger We may never know when the right world will transform a person's life. Philip White We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy A good book isn't written, it's rewritten. Phyllis A. Whitney PoetryOnce, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
Greg Bear A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost |
Thought-provoking
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
Nelson DeMille
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anaïs Nin
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Jonathan Kellerman
I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.
Thomas Wolfe
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
H.G. Wells
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor Hugo
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
Elie Wiesel
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
You can't step in the same river twice. Each time it is different, and so are you.
Alice Walker
All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
David Walliams
Nelson DeMille
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anaïs Nin
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Jonathan Kellerman
I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.
Thomas Wolfe
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
H.G. Wells
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor Hugo
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
Elie Wiesel
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
You can't step in the same river twice. Each time it is different, and so are you.
Alice Walker
All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
David Walliams