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    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #2
    Nora Roberts
    “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #3
    Nora Roberts
    “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #4
    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    Nora Roberts, Vision in White

  • #5
    Nora Roberts
    “Good fiction creates its own reality.”
    Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

  • #6
    Nora Roberts
    “It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”
    Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

  • #7
    Nora Roberts
    “You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #8
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #9
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

  • #10
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #12
    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    John Green

  • #13
    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #14
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #15
    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #16
    Santosh Kalwar
    “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
    Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

  • #17
    Douglas McGrath
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #18
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #19
    Colette
    “Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

    (Casual Chance, 1964)”
    Colette

  • #20
    “To read is to empower,
    To empower is to write,
    To write is to influence,
    To influence is to change,
    To change is to live".”
    Jane Evershed

  • #21
    Dark Jar Tin Zoo
    “Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
”
    Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #23
    bell hooks
    “No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
    bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”
    Stephen King

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself."

    "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #26
    Matthew Reilly
    “There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”
    Matthew Reilly, Area 7

  • #27
    Philip Roth
    “I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.”
    Philip Roth

  • #28
    Susan Sontag
    “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

    [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”
    Susan Sontag

  • #29
    Steve Shilstone
    “The thing I write will be the thing I write.”
    Steve Shilstone

  • #30
    Brené Brown
    “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.”
    Brené Brown



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