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January 19, 2013
Day 19 of 99 Days
Day 19 of 99 Days:
“We’ve got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.”
― Doris Lessing
I simply adore this quote. I’m not even entirely sure what Lessing means by “beautiful impossible blueprints”, but I know what it means to me. These words make me smile because they remind me of just ...
“We’ve got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.”
― Doris Lessing
I simply adore this quote. I’m not even entirely sure what Lessing means by “beautiful impossible blueprints”, but I know what it means to me. These words make me smile because they remind me of just ...
January 18, 2013
Day 18 of 99 Days
“I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.”
― Vivien Leigh
In this age of mass media, celebrities and fifteen-minute fame many people seem drawn to artistic careers not as a means of self-expression but to attain fame and fortune. This ...
― Vivien Leigh
In this age of mass media, celebrities and fifteen-minute fame many people seem drawn to artistic careers not as a means of self-expression but to attain fame and fortune. This ...
January 17, 2013
Day 17 of 99 Days
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf
When I read this quote I felt my shoulders drop, a smile spread across my face and my lungs deflate with a great exhale of relief. Let’s take it one sentence at ...
― Virginia Woolf
When I read this quote I felt my shoulders drop, a smile spread across my face and my lungs deflate with a great exhale of relief. Let’s take it one sentence at ...
January 16, 2013
Day 16 of 99 Days
“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and, if you are good enough at it, the money will come.”
― Greer Garson
First question: what is it you want to do? Second question: would you still do it ...
― Greer Garson
First question: what is it you want to do? Second question: would you still do it ...
January 15, 2013
Day 15 of 99 Days
“Advice to writers? Always the same: learn to trust your own judgement, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad.”
― Doris Lessing
It’s certainly true that you must trust and be true to yourself. It’s so important if you’re not going to be whittled ...
― Doris Lessing
It’s certainly true that you must trust and be true to yourself. It’s so important if you’re not going to be whittled ...
January 14, 2013
Day 14 of 99 Days
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
― Sylvia Plath
Self-doubt is the meanest of murderers. It likes to torture its victims slowly, pulling out hair, nails and teeth one by one. I was so plagued by self-doubt in my early twenties that I couldn’t write more than a paragraph a year, ...
― Sylvia Plath
Self-doubt is the meanest of murderers. It likes to torture its victims slowly, pulling out hair, nails and teeth one by one. I was so plagued by self-doubt in my early twenties that I couldn’t write more than a paragraph a year, ...
January 13, 2013
Day 13 of 99 Days
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
― Agatha Christie
This is a funny little piece of advice, but I find it’s usually true for me. If I’m doing something physical, engaging my body in even the most mundane of ways, then I’m very often blessed ...
― Agatha Christie
This is a funny little piece of advice, but I find it’s usually true for me. If I’m doing something physical, engaging my body in even the most mundane of ways, then I’m very often blessed ...
January 12, 2013
Day 12 of 99 Days
Day 12 of 99 Days:
“Your will shall decide your destiny.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
A creative life is not for the faint of heart, at least not if you want to make a living at it. If you balk at the first hurdle, if your stomach sinks at the thought of ...
“Your will shall decide your destiny.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
A creative life is not for the faint of heart, at least not if you want to make a living at it. If you balk at the first hurdle, if your stomach sinks at the thought of ...
January 11, 2013
Day 11 of 99 Days
Day 11 of 99 Days:
"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."
― Elizabeth Taylor
Courage is the first thing. Without it nothing is possible. With it everything is possible. Things you can’t even yet imagine. I know this to ...
"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."
― Elizabeth Taylor
Courage is the first thing. Without it nothing is possible. With it everything is possible. Things you can’t even yet imagine. I know this to ...
January 10, 2013
Day 10 of 99 Days
“Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.”
― Dorothy Parker
Day 10 of 99 Days: whatever it is you want to do, whatever dream you want to fulfill, keep taking the steps to achieve it. It’s no use dreaming of being an author if you don’t write ...
― Dorothy Parker
Day 10 of 99 Days: whatever it is you want to do, whatever dream you want to fulfill, keep taking the steps to achieve it. It’s no use dreaming of being an author if you don’t write ...
