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| Whiskers Ink | "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| Whiskers Ink | "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus" - Mark Twain | | |
| jasipper | "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."--T.S. Elliot | | |
| Kirby | "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."- E.L. Doctorow | | |
| jasipper | "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by...And that has made all the difference."--Robert Frost | | |
| I wannawrite | "I just want to dance in the moonlight with someone who also hears the music" | | |
| I wannawrite | When all else fails, WRITE! | | |
| Brian | "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." | | |
| SummerBreeze | "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust | | |
| Spunky | "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain | | |
| Spunky | "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates | | |
| Spunky | "Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." -- Spike Milligan | | |
| AlejaPoet | Only The Can Survive by Aleja bennett | | |
| turnerjk1 | "Be who you are and say what you like. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodore Guisel | | |
| Stone2Ink | "There is a thin line between genius an insanity. I have erased this line." Oscar Levant | | |
| turnerjk1 | "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi | | |
| Ben | "I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain | | |
| Ben | "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher | | |
| Ben | "Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn | | |
| Ben | "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide | | |
| Ben | "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman | | |
| Ben | "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill | | |
| Ben | "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier | | |
| Ben | "Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive" - Elbert Hubbard | | |
| mamund | "Life isn't complicated, it's just hard work" - anon. | | |
| abqwriter | Imagination is more important than knowledge. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. -ayn rand | | |
| abqwriter | Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - laurence j. peter | | |
| abqwriter | Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz | | |
| abqwriter | A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor | | |
| solemio | "T'is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | |
| solemio | GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! John Lennon | | |
| OnyxFlame | Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx | | |
| OnyxFlame | Explore your mind. It's the only one you'll ever have. - me | | |
| kaustav_kar | "He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning" | | |
| kaustav_kar | Minds are like parachutes. They function only when they're open | | |
| kaustav_kar | "The mind is capable of imagining, without the limitations of logic" | | |
| Lizzie | "I write for the same reason I breathe....because if I didn't, I would die." Isaac Asimov. | | |
| sharondeni | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel, that you too, can become great.- Mark Twain | | |
| Sora | I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every moment of it ~Sora | | |
| Sora | You said you read me like an open book, but the pages are all torn and frayed ~Sora | | |
| Sora | The dreams that have shattered, and the friends we have lost... Never forget them ~ Yuna (Final Fantasy X) | | |
| Sora | Don't think outside the box... Obliterate it. | | |
| Sora | Technology is like a tempermental two year old; when you try and make it do something it doesn't want to, it'll dig it's heels in and make your life a living nightmare. ~Sora | | |
| Ben | "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky | | |
| Ben | The secret of getting ahead is getting started. | | |
| Ben | "Gotta keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring?" - Tom Hanks, 'Castaway' | | |
| Ben | "When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell | | |
| Gooblink | Marriage is a wonderful institution, if you want to live in an institution - Grandpa Prusi | | |
| jasipper | I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. -Robert Frost | | |
| BLKeller | "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain | | |
| booklover | Opening a book opens up a whole other world to be discovered.-Kimberly | | |
| Ben | "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr. | | |
| Ben | "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci | | |
| Ben | "Whatever you say, say it with conviction." - Mark Twain | | |
| Ben | "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." - Mark Twain | | |
| MDPulaski | "I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day." - Agatha Christie | | |
| Jess | "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." -- Mark Twain | | |
| booklover | Reading a book opens up a world like no other. -Kimberly | | |
| nothinglikethesun | "You may my glories, and my state depose. But not my griefs, still am I King of those" --Shakespeare | | |
| Fantasy | "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Bacon | | |
| Fantasy | "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon | | |
| LadyJasra | "If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candle light, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." -Henry Rollins | | |
| Catherine | Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect~ Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London | | |
| Catherine | Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ~Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | You can always tell an Irishman. But you can't tell him much. ~unknown | | |
| Catherine | I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters | | |
| Catherine | I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.- George Burns | | |
| Catherine | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.- Carl Sagan | | |
| tsunami slicer | TEETH has to Imbed GRIT into INTENSITY,When Working on a Story You want the Reader to 'FEEL'! | | |
| Ben | "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." - Gloria Steinem | | |
| Ben | "I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others." - Moliere | | |
| yudelka | "If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." ~ Thomas Fuller | | |
| BLKeller | "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach | | |
| browneyedgirl | "Follow your own path, and let people talk." - Dante Alighieri | | |
| browneyedgirl | "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." - Walter "Red" Smith | | |
| JABarnes | "Don't write because you feel you have to, write because it is who you are." | | |
| JABarnes | "All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy!" - Jack Nickolson(The Shining) | | |
| JABarnes | "I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | "Books are a uniquely portable magic" - Stephen King | | |
| jasipper | "If you see an adverb, kill it!" -- Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | Remember, in regard to writing; imitation might be the best form of flattery; but they get the check if they publish it first~Catherine | | |
| daeddy70 | "It is the tale, no he who tells it." -- Stephen King | | |
| daeddy70 | "If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write." -- Stephen King | | |
| LaMarqueza | "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde | | |
| DarthSius | "I want only one thing, to write... to spin an epic so large and so great, that if Shakespeare were alive today would make him throw his quill away. Ahh, delusions of grandeur, you can take my sanity, my clothes and my confidence, but never these." - Anon. | | |
| Djokolot | "The price of leadership is responsibility." --- Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| jmar2 | (With apologies to The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, circa San Francisco, 1965.) Writing will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no writing. | | |
| Catherine | "Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned, forgive, and you shall be forgiven."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse."~Ray Bradbury | | |
| Catherine | "All writing comes by the grace of God."~Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| entropy_happens | "Eternity is a very long time..." -Emerson | | |
| Catherine | A writer's life is never boring. We author our own chaos and joy.~Catheirne | | |
| DorianGrey | Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. -Kant | | |
| entropy_happens | The sky's not the limit--the ground is! | | |
| wickedhppy | "You can't live on love alone-coffee and muffins are better" My friend Fred | | |
| entropy_happens | "When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue; you sell him a whole new life." -Emerson | | |
| entropy_happens | One of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down." -Norman Augustine | | |
| entropy_happens | Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -Oliver Herford | | |
| entropy_happens | Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. -Jules Renard | | |
| entropy_happens | I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. -Tom Stoppard | | |
| emcollier | "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury | | |
| emcollier | "When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing." - Tennessee Williams | | |
| emcollier | "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."--E.L. Doctorow | | |
| DorianGrey | Never argue with an idiot; theyll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. -no idea | | |
| meloncholy | "I dont know what Ceaser thought when he got to the Ides of March, I dont know what Houdini bought when he went to the store, but I sure do miss the 80's." -unknown | | |
| Shamari | "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." Ernest Hemmingway | | |
| SilverCrow | "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." - Pres. G. W. Bush | | |
| SilverCrow | "I could be the walrus, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car." - Ferris Beuller | | |
| Fantasy | "An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards." F. Scott Fitzgerald | | |
| Fantasy | "O ye critics, will nothing melt ye?" Sir Walter Scott | | |
| Fantasy | "It is a fact that few novelists enjoy the creative labor, though most enjoy thinking about the creative labor." Arnold Bennett | | |
| Fantasy | "Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water." Robert Frost | | |
| Fantasy | "For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded." Sir James M. Barrie | | |
| Catherine | "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." ~Flannery O'Conner | | |
| stevedyas | "Variety is the spice of life." - Idiom | | |
| Ellen | "The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new" | | |
| rlstanfield | Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) Botanist | | |
| rlstanfield | If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark | | |
| rlstanfield | "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." -- Douglas Noel Adams | | |
| rlstanfield | Most people see what is, and never see what can be. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955)Physicist | | |
| rlstanfield | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers | | |
| ex-smoker | Always look over your shoulder, you never know who might be behind you | | |
| Clicky | My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln | | |
| Catherine | "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney | | |
| entropy_happens | "The most important part of a story...is the ending. It's all that really matters in a story." -Johnny Depp, "Secret Window" | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." - Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." -Albert Einstein, March 13th, 1940 | | |
| printjunkie | "Don't die with the music still inside you." Florence Littauer | | |
| soulwriterink | if we are made for purpose, then i believe my purpose is write | | |
| soulwriterink | Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Love me because I am not | | |
| soulwriterink | After all these years I finally learned what I'm going to write about: You! | | |
| boldulyses | "Nothing prepares you for life like living it. Doesn't seem at all fair." -BoldUlyses | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | "Better to live on the run, then die standing still!" -R.S.P. Lee | | |
| bongobro | Never do anything halfway! | | |
| MDPulaski | “I felt uneasy at posing as an expert on rhetoric, when the truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.” -E.B. White | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "Half of me is all about apathy; the other half just doesn't care." --Matt Theisen | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "History is written by those who hang heroes." --Braveheart | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman." --Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Crime and Punishment | | |
| Taliesin2 | They called me crazy, I called them crazy, and damn them! They outvoted me! - Nathaniel Lee, on being consigned to a mental institution, C 17th century | | |
| Mylhibug | In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson | | |
| jmar2 | "Magic can't work on stupid people" - Bana, a Ranger for the EMU in 2451 | | |
| jmar2 | We've fought man and beast together Liam. I've had one eye replaced, an arm and both legs. I've drowned, been thrown off a cliff and eaten by a droone. But this time, Liam, this time I'm scared. " - Bana, a Ranger for the EMU in 2451 just before his wedding. | | |
| leeann | A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. | | |
| SilverCrow | When writing, try to leave out the parts that most readers skip --Elmore Leonard-- | | |
| SilverCrow | Fiction writers tend to err either by making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former --Jim Harrison-- | | |
| jjcrooks | Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes -- Singer, Tori Amos -- | | |
| minou | There is no limit to the power of your mind. Concentrate on that thought. Fill your mind with the resolution to accomplish, and work toward your goals with positive actions. Keep driving the mind toward higher achievements. Paramahansa Yogananda | | |
| writeoff | Man was not designed to dream small, nor opportunity meant to be administered in small doses.--Stan Thomas | | |
| poetikgrl | "Words are the voice of the heart" - Confucius | | |
| writeoff | the only reason for being a writer is that you can't help it.-- Leo Rosten | | |
| Fantasy | "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public." - Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| Fantasy | "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." - Cyril Connolly | | |
| Blackheart | "Life is short, eat dessert first" | | |
| singingsilentshadow | "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupidr than you really are is that very often, you succeed." | | |
| Ernestine | Writing has become such a process of self-discovery that I couldn't wait to get up in the morning. I wanted to know what I was going to say. *Sharon O'Brien | | |
| entropy_happens | When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is odd jobs. -Margaret Laurence | | |
| entropy_happens | In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. -Edith Wharton | | |
| entropy_happens | Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. -Maya Angelou | | |
| entropy_happens | Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. -Jules Renard | | |
| entropy_happens | A book comes and says, "Write me." -Madeleine L'Engle | | |
| entropy_happens | If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. -Tennessee Williams | | |
| entropy_happens | The difference between the almost right word and the right word is...the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. -Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." - Isaac Asimov | | |
| Eyes_86 | "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows." - Socrates | | |
| Eyes_86 | "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Eyes_86 | "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Mylhibug | "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson" | | |
| Mylhibug | "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." —Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think." -Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Tis the good reader that makes the good book." -Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Death---is saying I can't, I won't, & I will not- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Guns don't kill people, living does--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Life is about the moments you live, not the regrets you feel--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Never say what you don't mean, always stand behind what you say, & the truth is always the first choice--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Writer's block is just an excuse for the lack of creative talent--- Omen '06 | | |
| Ellen | Writing is hard work. Aclear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.---William Zinsser | | |
| Ellen | "Who am I writing for?" It's a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself.---William Zinsser | | |
| jjcrooks | "If your ears are burning, someone is talking about you. If your ears are itchy, they are dirty." -- Comedian, Ellen DeGeneres | | |
| Yarnsalot | Writers will happen in the best of families. Rita Mae Brown | | |
| Yarnsalot | The universe is transformation; our life is what out thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius | | |
| Yarnsalot | If my doctor told me I only had six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood, I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov | | |
| Yarnsalot | Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | |
| Yarnsalot | Wise quotes are easy to read but hard to live up to. | | |
| Yarnsalot | Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King | | |
| Yarnsalot | But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron | | |
| Mayahon | When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. -Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | She's got everything she needs, She's an artist, she don't look back. She can take the dark out of the nighttime, And paint the daytime black. -Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola. Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! - Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content. - Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | You always said people don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent. - Bob Dylan | | |
| Eyes_86 | "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Solomon Short | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C.S. Lewis | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T.S. Elliot (1888-1965) | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren | | |
| MDPulaski | "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over." --Ernest Hemingway | | |
| loudermilk | "Creativity is all in your head." -- I said that. | | |
| loudermilk | "Every Hun has value -- even if only to serve as a bad example." -- Atilla the Hun | | |
| wrtrsblck | To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act-Anatole France | | |
| bongobro | "Life is not a 50-yard dash, it's a marathon...it's never too late to begin and it's always too soon to quit!" | | |
| TheWriter | Ya cain't sing nothin' if ya ain't got nothin' to say- Shotgun Willie by Willie Nelson | | |
| sunflower42 | best antidote to ignorance is knowledge | | |
| sunflower42 | best remedy for inadequate skills is practice | | |
| JUkeJointJerry | "If this was easy, everyone would be doing it." | | |
| Blackheart | "Life is a precious commodity, live it wisely." | | |
| ShenaD | "Be carful of which doors you open for some are harder to close than others" ShenaD original | | |
| wrtrsblck | You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing-Michael Pritchard | | |
| dfletcher | If it weren't for excellence, what would we strive for? | | |
| Sheri | "Imagination can not be bound. Those who move mountains begin first by carrying away small stones." | | |
| Clicky | "Look! A Distraction!" - Jessica, my friend | | |
| Clicky | Love Conquers All | | |
| queenb | The moment we break faith with one another, The sea engulfs us and the light goes out.--James Baldwin | | |
| wrtrsblck | Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.~ Joseph Campbell | | |
| Sheri | DETERMINATION - What the mind of a person can conceive and believe, it can achieve. | | |
| Sheri | Success comes from within you but it is pushed forward by many more hands than your own. | | |
| Sheri | If you believe strongly enough in yourself, others will come to believe in you. | | |
| Sheri | In this world, I am only the person that I am. In my writing, I am everything and everyone. | | |
| jmar2 | We have met the enemy and he is us - Walt Kelly | | |
| jmar2 | Don't take life so serious son, it ain't no how permanent... Walt Kelly | | |
| idjohnson | He who lives, dies, He who dies, lives | | |
| idjohnson | He who lives, dies, He who dies, lives | | |
| Sheri | If you will not...you can not, If you will...you can! | | |
| soulcomfort | "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 | | |
| Sheri | In this life, the only thing that is truly easy to get is nothing. | | |
| Sheri | My writing is a world all my own, to which everyone and everything is invited. | | |
| Sheri | Opportunity comes knocking...but only if you call it up and ask it to come over. | | |
| JessicaLeigh | "All grown-ups were once children--although few of them remember it." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery | | |
| goobiesonvenus | Don't mind me. I'm just losing my mind over here. I do that once a month. Helps me stay in touch with my past. -Ted Dekker | | |
| Linda Adams | Creativity is controlled insanity -- Robert H. Adams. | | |
| Karls_Mommy | "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." - Douglas Adams | | |
| Karls_Mommy | "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams | | |
| yudelka | "I value honesty and advice. It's the only way to improve." ~ Joshua Sipper | | |
| dfletcher | I write fantasy fiction so my mind can accept brutal realism. Hopefully, my writing is a haven for others like me.- what I told a counselor when I was in High School. | | |
| bongobro | "On the road to happiness, there are many detours." | | |
| MDPulaski | “In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.”—Anne Lamott | | |
| queenb | Creativity is a drug I cannot live without--Cecil B. DeMille | | |
| queenb | You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury | | |
| queenb | If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou | | |
| queenb | A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte | | |
| Farnswell | "Just because you're breathing doesn't mean you're alive" - John Farnswell | | |
| Farnswell | "Procrastination is inaction in action." - John Farnswell | | |
| KarenRankowitz | Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | | |
| KarenRankowitz | The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. - George Orwell | | |
| KarenRankowitz | I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details - Albert Einstein | | |
| benu_bird | "Do or do not. There is no 'try'." - Master Yoda | | |
| kwbunyap | "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -- Gandalf | | |
| entropy_happens | A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. --H.L. Mencken | | |
| entropy_happens | The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. --Marty Feldman | | |
| entropy_happens | Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. --Terry Pratchett | | |
| entropy_happens | There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. --Salvador Dali | | |
| entropy_happens | The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. --Robert Benchley | | |
| Eric McCarty | “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” – Maya Angelou | | |
| Eric McCarty | “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon | | |
| Eric McCarty | “Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eric McCarty | "Don't blame your doubt if you fear belief." - The Waiting | | |
| Sarren | "I have never thought of writing for reputation or honor. What I have in my heart must come out, that is the reason I compose." -Ludwig van Beethoven | | |
| Sarren | "I have risked my life for my work, half my reason is gone." -Van Gogh | | |
| tammytull | "You can't fix stupid"- Ron White, comedian | | |
| M Rodgers | Always wait 24 hours before committing suicide. | | |
| M Rodgers | Ya gotta clean up the backyard before ya invite the folks to the Bar-B-Que - Rodgers | | |
| entropy_happens | "[Writers are] spies ke[eping] their eyes on suspicious characters, working on espionage, taking notes, observing particulars that everyone else overlook[s], scouring the world for clues of meaning." -Ted Dekker, from his novel Showdown | | |
| Sarren | Writers, Actors, and Politicians are all liars for a living. When you write, you're always lying to someone. Most of the time it is yourself, and most of the time it's because you're telling yourself you're not lying. | | |
| thewritingwriter | "Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing and it becomes chronic in their sick minds" -Juvenal (AD60-130) | | |
| entropy_happens | "This is all some sort of whacked-out conspiracy!" -DreamWorks' Madagascar | | |
| Catherine | Books are the carrier of civilization. ~Thoreau | | |
| Catherine | How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.~Thoreau | | |
| Catherine | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Twain | | |
| Catherine | You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Twain | | |
| Raven | " If life is a piece of cake...how come I only get to lick the frosting?" - Doug "Hollywood" Davis | | |
| Catherine | Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul. - H.W.L | | |
| Catherine | I never knew so young a body with so old a head.~Shakespeare | | |
| angelinblack | Passing is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson | | |
| MellonCollie | The mirror shows many things- things that were, things that are and some things that might not yet have come to pass~ Lord of the Rings- The fellowship of the Ring | | |
| MellonCollie | Even the smallest person can change the course of the future~Lord of the Rings- The fellowship of the Ring | | |
| MellonCollie | I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!" -- Emo Phillips (comedian) | | |
| pvinlskallinda | A great writer creates a picture with a story.........A great photographer creates a story with a photograph........L.S.Kall | | |
| kayebee | When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. (Raymond Chandler) | | |
| pvinlskallinda | You cant schedule creativity.......L.S.Kall | | |
| Eileena | Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln) | | |
| Eileena | A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats) | | |
| Eileena | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust) | | |
| Eileena | If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud. | | |
| StephB | The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cromier | | |
| StephB | Footprints in the sand are not made by standing still. - unknown | | |
| john murtagh | If space and time, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The fly that lives a single day Has lived as long as we. But let us live while yet we may, While love and life are free, For time is time, and runs away, Though sages disagree. (TS Elliot) | | |
| MLOGAL | The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. ~Tom Clancy | | |
| aforred | Sometimes you have to water the weeds before you can pull them. - Afton Forred | | |
| Arwen | Quoth the raven,"Nevermore" - Edgar Allen Poe | | |
| Mirth | We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. (Romans 5:3-4) | | |
| Mirth | Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:2) | | |
| Arwen | "Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books, surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore"-Edgar Allen Poe | | |
| Arwen | . . ". I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE." (Jane Austen) | | |
| psjake | there are no shortcuts to any place worth going! | | |
| psjake | nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else! | | |
| sylvie | So powerful is the act of kindness, it can change the course of a lifetime. | | |
| sylvie | Hope, is a state of mind. It is a part of ou spirit, our heart. Hope anchors us in this world. | | |
| sylvie | "Commit yourself to find the source of your spirit"-Anonymous | | |
| sylvie | "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| sylvie | "The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty, and truth."-Albert Einstein | | |
| SilverCrow | "Everybody wan go heaven, but nobody wan dead."-Old Jamaican saying- | | |
| vade mecum | The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton | | |
| vade mecum | Never, never, never give up.- Winston Churchill | | |
| Princess Belle | Failure more than success is the beginning of wisdom | | |
| joker7380 | If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. | | |
| joker7380 | Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. | | |
| joker7380 | Those who try to write something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. | | |
| joker7380 | Vision is the art of seeing things invisible | | |
| joker7380 | A poor writer is not that one without a cent. A poor writer is that one without a dream. | | |
| joker7380 | Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. | | |
| joker7380 | It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. | | |
| kwbunyap | "I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil" - Gandalf | | |
| whyte_tiger | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein | | |
| myfair_98 | He who loves books is never without a friend~Anonymous | | |
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