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I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life. Jeanette Winterson
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete... Norman Maclean
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible. Mark Twain
J. K. Rowling quote: "Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?"
Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me? J. K. Rowling
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful;..."
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. Elizabeth Gilbert
E. M. Forster quote: "Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we..."
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. E. M. Forster
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of... Anne Lamott
How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. Greta Garbo
Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise... Harper Lee
Emma Goldman quote: "People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence..."
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. Emma Goldman
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have..."
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. Chuck Palahniuk
Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. Daphne du Maurier
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes:... Bill Watterson
Rod McKuen quote: "I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and..."
I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and sail the wide sea of your thighs. Rod McKuen

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