"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
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— Maya Angelo

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success."
— Richard Carlson

"“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”"
— Spencer Johnson

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows."
— Audrey Hepburn

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
— Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
— Stephen King

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
— Stephen King

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."
— Stephen King

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!"
— Stephen King (Needful Things)

"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
— Stephen King

"It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
— Stephen King

"There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids."
— Stephen King

"When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story."
— Stephen King

"Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
— Stephen King

"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.""
— Stephen King

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations.

And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark."
— Stephen King (Duma Key)

"It was like drowning, only from the inside out."
— Stephen King

"Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also
a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page."
— Stephen King

"The color white is the absence of memory."
— Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start.
After that, things can only get better."
— Stephen King

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
— Stephen King

"Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair"
— Stephen King

"I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."
— Stephen King

"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"
— Stephen King

"Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. "
— Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)

"... you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

"Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. "
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"...love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it"
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)