Kailee Samuels > Kailee's Quotes

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Sportswriter Red Smith described writing by saying, “You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”
― Guy Kawasaki, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing—grinding, buffing, and polishing—not writing.”
― Guy Kawasaki, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

“This is it... why I’m here... what I crave... The beautiful rhythm of pain is the only beat that consumes me. My only release. I need this.”
― Jade West, Dirty Bad Savage

“Nothing like the zone, is there? Finding your groove and letting the muse steal you away.”
― Jade West, Dirty Bad Savage

“New renovations on an old building, like putting a fresh coat of makeup on an old whore, but clean enough.”
― Cole McCade, The Lost

“always seek to determine if any given action is worth your time.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat.:

“Forces bigger than myself have determined a different course these cataclysmic days. To hell in a handbasket, as Grandma liked to say, we were apparently meant to head instead. Tra-la. Hard”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“The country does not wait to do its wild things just because you have not pulled into the driveway yet; it doesn’t wait for Friday evenings, or cease on Sundays at five o’clock.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“(If you think you want to live in the country, start by clearing a thicket of brambles, invasive woody vines, and choked, decaying trees, and then decide. This or its equivalent will basically become your life practice. There are always thorny bits in your path, always.) Back”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“It's one slice of shit-cake after another with me, isn't it? Why did you marry me?"
"God gave you to me."
"Did you keep the receipt?"

- Amber and Meoraq”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still be glossing over 'inappropriate' kissing scenes.
Break the fucking rules.
Push yourself to the edge.
Show the world what YOU can do.
This is YOUR book. YOUR blood and guts.
AND, don't you EVER, EVER, write one single line for SOMEONE ELSE.”
― Madeline Sheehan

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke