Maegan Cook > Maegan's Quotes

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“Don’t wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an actor, but far too many people seem to believe that you. don’t have to write to be a writer. So, instead of writing, they wait. Isaac Asimov said it beautifully in just six words: “It’s the writing that teaches you.” Writing is what teaches you. Writing is what leads to “inspiration.” Writing is what generates ideas. Nothing else-and nothing less. Don’t meditate, don’t do yoga, don’t do drugs. Just write.”
― Daniel Quinn, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest

“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.”
― Maegan Cook

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Happiness often comes when least expected.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness