Tori Sharp > Tori's Quotes

“How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?”
― Robert Benson

“There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Err on the side of awesome.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”
― Natalie Goldberg

“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it”
― Natalie Goldberg

“Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)”
― Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

“In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.”
― Natalie Goldberg

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life