GOT QUOTES?
- The writing bug had sunk her incisors deep into my creative soul, and I couldn’t shake her loose. - Lois Winston
- It’s never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
- Ecstasy is what everyone craves--not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. - Diane Ackerman
- Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
- After fifty, most of the bullshit is gone. - Isabel Allende
- It’s never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise. - Nancy Thayer
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
- ...we are the heroes of our own story. - Mary McCarthy
- I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. - Anne Tyler
- Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself. - Alice Deville
- As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles. - Walt Whitman
- A window of opportunity won’t open itself. - Dave Weinbaum
- Opportunities are all around you. Find one. - Liz Jarrett
- Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn. - Charlie Parker
- Saying no can be the ultimate self-care. - Claudia Black
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
- Wake up with a smile and go after life...live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. - Joe Knapp
- The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. - Maya Angelou
- When you have someone who believes in you...you have a tendency not to give up on your dreams. - Lois Winston
- It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman
- ...to fear is one thing. To let fear grab you around the tail and swing you around is another. - Katherine Peterson
- It’s a funny thing about life. If you refuse to settle for anything less than the best, that’s what it will give you. - W. Somerset Maugham
- Some women wait for something to change and nothing does change so they change themselves. - Andre Lorde
- Don’t be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen
- There is no agony like having an untold story inside you. - Zora Neale Hurston
- The soul is here for its own joy. - Rumi
- Discontent and disorder [are] signs of energy and hope, not despair. - Danae Cicely Veronica Wedgewood
- You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. - Les Brown
- Who needs a clean house anyway? When an idea strikes me, I don’t have to search for pen and paper; I use my finger to write in the dust. - Edie Ramer
- A book is a writer’s best self. - Zadie Smith
- And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. - Paul McCartney, John Lennon (The End)
- I have learned to kick guilt in its ass and keep going. - Karin Tabke
- If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical - Terry Brooks
- If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can’t let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. - Terry Brooks
- - if you've FINISHED writing a novel you are amongst the elite!!! You ARE NOT A FAILURE IF YOU CANNOT LIVE OFF YOUR BOOKS. You only fail by NOT TRYING. - Nadia Cornier
- The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Carl Jung
- My soul is possessed with a need to create - what better way than to write? - Kathy Calarco
- If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. - Terry Brooks
- The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change. - Terry Brooks
- Trying to explain in rational, analytical fashion how we come up with our plots and our thematic structures threatens in an odd sort of way to reveal that we are all just humbugs hiding behind a velvet curtain. - Terry Brooks
- I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. - Terry Brooks
- Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way. - Terry Brooks
- I see something happen, read or hear about an event, and the first question that pops into my mind is, How can I use that in a story? - Terry Brooks.
- I have decided, on reflection, it is best just to remember that sometimes the magic really works. - Terry Books
- To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music words make. - Truman Capote
- I like good strong words that mean something. - Louisa May Alcott
- The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. - Keanu Reeves
- A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. - Anonymous
- If you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
- Persistence and determination and tenacity and sheer bulldoggedness are as important as talent in this business. - Roxanne St. Claire
- The Author’s Prayer: Our Father, which art in Heaven, And has also written a book... - Anon
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. - Joan Didion
- The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
- There’s no comparison between what’s lost by not trying and what’s lost by not succeeding. - Francis Bacon
- Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - André Gide
- Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence. - Carl Jung
- Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. - Patrick Dennis (Aunt Mame)
- Neglect not the gift that is within thee. - Mary Engelbreit
- It’s good to be queen. - Mary Engelbreit
- Most people don’t know that there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don’t get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life. - Brian Andreas
- Your biggest problem is yourself. Getting out of the way and letting your imagination take over is the best way. - Jerry Cleaver
- This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are. - Terry Brooks
- The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all. - Terry Brooks
- If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. - Terry Brooks
- I tell myself it's best not to get complacent. Another rejection, another line closing, could be just around the corner. You have to push on, though. Because that's what writers do. We write. - Nikki Rivers
- Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? - Jon Bon Jovi
- It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us. - Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Anonymous
- There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
- I dwell in possibility. - Emily Dickenson
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein.
- Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy. - Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
- The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy. - Saraydarian
- You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. - Brig. Gen. Chuck Yaeger
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
- The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit-detector. - Ernest Hemingway
- And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. - Mark Twain
- To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. - Anne Rice
- If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
- The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm. - Malcolm Forbes
- When you reach for the stars, you might not get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - Leo Burnett
- Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every rejection is one step closer to yes! - Bridget Morton
- Take chances and be Glorious! - Anne Stuart
- Maybe you can find safety in life, but trust me, there's no safety in Art. - Anne Stuart
- It never enters my mind that I can't do something I set out to doing. - Anne Stuart
- Even my failures enrich my life. Maybe more than my successes at times. - Anne Stuart
- Remember to dance at inappropriate moments. Life will reward you for it. - Anne Stuart
- If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all. - Anne Stuart
- Dull women have immaculate houses. - Anonymous
- Be like Mae West, brash and bold and brave. - Anne Stuart
- Everyone has a special song
Inside their Hearts!
Everyone in the whole wide world
Has their own special heart-song.
If you believe in magical, musical hearts,
And if you believe you can be happy,
Then you, too, will hear your song.
- Mattie Stepanek
- The writing bug had sunk her incisors deep into my creative soul, and I couldn't shake her loose. - Lois Winston
- There were days when I wondered if I was a glutton for punishment or simply delusional. However, my writing must have been improving because one day I found myself with three agents interested in my latest manuscript. - Lois Winston
- Action conquers fear. - Peter Nivio Zarlenga
- We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. - Marianne Williamson
- Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche
- The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something
horribly crappy. - Chris Baty
- The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's
the lack of a DEADLINE. - Chris Baty
- And yes I said yes I will Yes. - James Joyce
- I'm just visiting this planet. - Bumpersticker
- I am the hero of my life story. - Edie Ramer
- Act out the laws of your inner self, trust the inherent correctness of your instincts... In this way you will meet with success. - I CHING nr. 32
- If there's anything as much fun as being alive, I'd like to know what it is. - Mary Engelbreit
- There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that second-best is anything but the second-best. - Doris Lessing
- Bloom where you're planted. - Mary Engelbreit
- When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jefferson
- If your ship hasn't come in--swim out to it. - Mary Engelbreit
- To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Thibault
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. - Goethe
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
- She Who Laughs, Lasts. - Mary Engelbreit
- To be happy, don't do whatever you like. Like whatever you do. - Mary Engelbreit
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine De Sainte Supery
- A book is a present you can open again and again. - Barry Leibman
- A little madness in the spring
Is wholesome even for the king.
- Emily Dickenson
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Thoreau
- Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul - the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill
- Beliefs are limits to be examined and transcended. - John Lilly
- Those who identify with the Tao
Are likewise welcomed by the Tao.
Those who identify with Power
Are likewise welcomed by Power.
Those who identify with Failure
Are likewise welcomed by Failure.
- Tao Te Ching
- Human beings, by changing the inner beliefs of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
- Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford
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