W. S. Dosary > W. S.'s Quotes

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach

“The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.”
― W.S. Merwin

“I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
― W.S. Merwin, Opening the Hand

“I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here”
― W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning