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Favorite Quotes
I think that a person’s favorite quotes say a lot about that person, so here are
some of mine:
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." --Maya Angelou
"I have often been driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere
else to go." --Abraham Lincoln
"I have never thought of myself as a good writer. . . . But I’m one of the world’s
great rewriters." --James Michener
"Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." --Red Smith
"When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes it's hell in the hallway!"
--Leslie Nitz
"I don't know where they (the words to write) come from, but I know where they come
to: they come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again." --Philip Pullman,
NaNoWriMo Pep Talk 11/6/08
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream." --Unknown
"The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth." --Unknown
"Sometimes we just have to hold onto faith . . . and then close our eyes!" --MaryBeth
Klick
"Has America become a country where classroom discussion of the Ten Commandments
is impermissible, but teacher instructions in safe [sex] are to be mandatory?" --Patrick
Buchanan
"How can a moral wrong be a civil right?" --Slogan. Anti-abortion position, 1990s
"I've noticed that everybody [who] is for abortion has already been born." --Ronald
Reagan
"Every man loves what he is good at." --Thomas Shadwell
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write
know anything." --Walter Bagehot
"One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how
relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it
can possibly give." --James Baldwin
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than
work." --Robert Frost
"It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer." --Gerald
Brenan
"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and
have no self." --Cyril Connolly
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference
between lightning and the lightning bug." --Mark Twain
"Writing itself is an act of faith, and nothing else." --E.B. White
"Write straight into the emotional center. ...toward vulnerability.... Worry about
being absent or fraudulent. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand
it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. --Ann Lamott
“Write the very best book based on where your heart is, not to please the public
or cater to the market. God will take care of the rest.” --Donita K. Paul
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