Yours Quotes (page 496)

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• fear
• personality
• personal

If you are fortunate enough to be part of a hit, particularly a transcendent one, all emotional ownership is transferred from you to the audience. They judge it and embrace it; project their own hopes, dreams, and fears onto it; take their personal meaning from its themes, and with these investments it becomes theirs. The significance of your participation pales in comparison to the significance the project has on their imaginations. Rob Lowe

• him
• depart
• started

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Horace

• reading
• comforting
• walking

Writer advice..Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write Neil Gaiman

• power
• powerful
• history

Jimmy Hoffa said, “I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine.” Heshie Ryskind said, “Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in. James Ellroy

• depression
• brain
• brainly

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. Jeffrey Eugenides

• son
• mother
• decision

You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps ofyour child you still could in what he had become. Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother? Jodi Picoult

• god
• those
• gods

Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God! Milan Kundera

• power
• moon
• world

But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world? Terry Prachett

• dark
• evening
• cover

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell? Neal Stephenson

• mind
• mindfulness
• ways

This is the way to the museyroom. Mind your boots goan out. James Joyce

• life
• time
• curiosity

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time... Sylvia Plath

• manly
• enough
• look

Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency? William Shakespeare

• success
• writing
• attention

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. Frank Herbert

• moments
• friends life
• life death

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran

• hope
• together
• hand

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope. Terry Prachett