Wayne Marinovich > Wayne's Quotes

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“There can be no more noble a quest than a man seeking to rescue his beloved.”
― Liesel Schwarz, A Conspiracy of Alchemists

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
― J.M. Coetzee

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Most often when I stammer
That's my brain
Correcting my grammer.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.”
― Justice Louis Brandeis

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”
― Zig Ziglar

“One of the biggest reasons we don’t succeed with our goals is we doubt we can.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art