(3,051) Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
Franz Kafka
(3,052) Only a writer will hold conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves, we talk to the people we created from nothing.
Joseph Eastwood
(3,053) We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(3,054) We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
(3,055) Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler
(3,056) Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Proverb
(3,057) We've been told that all good things must come to an end. Even things that feel permanent. Stuff that maybe we take for granted. Like this town. Or for me, my mom. So how tightly are we supposed to hold on to the stuff that we love? Really tightly? Or not at all? Should we be sad when they go away? Should we fight? Or is letting stuff we love go inevitable, like that old adage says?
Levi Hamrick, The Last Boy and Girl in the World
(3,058) Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
Gone, Albert Hillsborough
(3,059) Writing is an underestimated art. You are painting colorful images in people's minds by using words of black and white.
Unknown
(3,060) All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu
(3,061) Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.
Spryte Loriano
(3,062) The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams
(3,063) Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
(3,064) I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
Carlos Ruiz Fafon
(3,065) All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
(3,066) Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese proverb
(3,067) You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.
Brené Brown
(3,068) Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
(3,069) We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Bill Gates
(3,070) Your silence gives consent.
Plato
(3,071) Life is a seducer. It seeks to get our attention and devotion.
Lolly Daskal
(3,072) Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
(3,073) If not us, who? If not now, when?
John F. Kennedy
(3,074) The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.
John Lennon
(3,075) A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
(3,076) There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met.
Roald Dahl
(3,077) Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for it surely will be worth it in the end.
Sanjo Jendayi
(3,078) Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Dalai Lama
(3,079) A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
(3,080) Write from the heart as well as the head. Write about what makes you angry, what moves you to tears, the things about which you feel passionately. If you feel it when you write, others will feel it when they read.
Malori Blackman
(3,081) Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer - however happy, however tragic - is ever wasted.
P. D. James
(3,082) Think only about the work, about writing a good book as good as you can make it. It helps to have the sensation that you are writing a book that doesn't exist and that you, as a reader, would like to exist.
Adam Foulds
(3,083) Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
Geoff Dyer
(3,084) Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to do and get it back. Remember, writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.
A. L. Kennedy
(3,085) Keep writing. Even if you think it's terrible, keep writing; you will only get better with practice. And learn to finish the things you begin, because the ending is the hardest part.
Lucy Saxon
(3,086) Be unkind to your characters when you are exploring who you are. Challenge them, put them in difficult situations and see how they respond, present them with strong choices and show us their development. Interrogate them. Do they have any transgressions? Once you see the world from your characters' point of view, their emotional logic will be authentic.
Jenny Downham
(3,087) Write loads, read vicariously, go out and live. Things will emerge in the spaces between and you might be surprised by what it does.
Irenosen Okojie
(3,088) Actions always prove why words mean nothing.
Unknown
(3,089) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
(3,090) Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
(3,091) Most people don't lead their life, they accept their life.
John Maxwell
(3,092) You can have results or excuses. Not both.
Arnold Schwarzeneger
(3,093) One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
Unknown
(3,094) We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
(3,095) It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
(3,096) The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
(3,097) Death smiles at us all, all man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
(3,098) Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
(3,099) Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
(3,100) The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Oscar Wilde