Gina > Gina's Quotes

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“With writing, we have second chances.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.”
― Katrina Monroe

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”
― Cristina Istrati

“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”
― Lauren B. Davis

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim