Quotes I Love
“Winners don’t blame. Winners don’t whine. Winners keep at it until they win.”
“I’m not only putting on my big girl panties, I’m putting on my bitch bra, my shit kicker boots, and my spiked leather belt with the FUCK YOU buckle. So don’t tell me to ‘deal with it’. I’ve got this shit covered.”
~ author unknown
“People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it’s all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren’t the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.”
~ Neil Gaiman
“Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.”
“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.”
~ Steve Jobs
“Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.”
“There are a few writers who are special. They make the world in their books; or rather, they open a window or a door or a magic casement, and they show you the world in which they live.”
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
~ Saul Bellow
“Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”
~ Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
~ Dr. Seuss
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols)
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
~ Jacob M. Braude
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
~ Steve Jobs, NBC Nightly News, May 2006
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