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  • #1
    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #2
    Michele L. Rivera
    “You see, that’s the thing about a girl,
    Her kisses leave you breathless
    Her eyes become your world
    But it never seems to matter where she stops, lingers or starts
    She’ll sometimes revive it,
    sometimes break it,
    but she will always steal your heart”
    Michele L. Rivera, Taking the Lead

  • #3
    Michele L. Rivera
    “Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?”
    Michele L. Rivera, Taking the Lead

  • #4
    Robert Uttaro
    “I think it is important to recognize one’s power, one’s capacities, and one’s dreams. We were actually talking about this in the last men’s group we had. We were talking about these dreams they had as kids and how they just disappeared. They just seemed like they couldn’t even be followed anymore. So for me that’s a loss of power. That’s a loss of their power; their own belief that they control their world. But they need to understand that their actions matter." - Chris”
    Robert Uttaro, To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence

  • #5
    “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.”
    Amy Poehler

  • #6
    “It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”
    Amy Poehler, Yes Please

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #8
    Michele L. Rivera
    “...There are no ‘what ifs.’ You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you’ve got or cut her loose.”
    Michele L. Rivera, Something in Return

  • #9
    Michele L. Rivera
    “In certain company
    Often the uninvited
    We react
    We transform one another”
    Michele L. Rivera, Something in Return

  • #10
    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    Joss Whedon

  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “Tears are words that need to be written.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    Anais Nin

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
    Anais Nin

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #16
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #17
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
    Robert Frost

  • #18
    Elie Wiesel
    “Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #19
    Gloria Steinem
    “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
    William Faulkner

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #24
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #28
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “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

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    Albert Camus



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