Jonathan McFerran > Jonathan's Quotes

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Good anecdote--bad reality.”
― Carrie Fisher

“it’s important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.”
― Carrie Fisher