Ifs Quotes (page 109)

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• best
• learning
• real

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you. Bernard Malamud

• end
• work
• grace

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. Katherine Anne Porter

• typewriter
• then
• cans

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. Tom Robbins

• wall
• starting out
• just

if you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. Stephen King

• words
• word
• invention

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. Charles Baudelaire

• time
• timely
• right

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh? Jodi Picoult

• your life
• life
• life sayings

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. Elie Wiesel

• light
• shadow
• shadows

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light Lady Gaga

• saying
• she
• you me

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. Leo Tolstoy

• love
• music
• thinking

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin

• she
• knowing
• why

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. Beverly Cleary

• simply
• explains
• simply you

If you can't explain something simply, you don't undderstand it. Albert Einstein

• ultimate
• cartoon
• believe

If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is really a salesman and really ultimately doesn’t give a shit about you or some cause but really just wants something for... David Foster Wallace

• death
• writing
• new

If you're from New Jersey,” Nathan had said, “and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after your death they'll decide to name a rest stop for you on the Jersey Turnpike. And so, long after you're gone, you may indeed be remembered, but mostly by small children, in the backs of cars, when they lean forward and tell their parents, 'Stop, please, stop at Zuckerman—I have to make a pee.'... Philip Roth

• wisdom
• would
• ours

If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold. Lao Tzu