James Erith > James's Quotes

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus