Heidi Herman > Heidi's Quotes

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am far too busy enjoying life to be limited by acting my age”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

“Attitude is everything - choose to believe”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

“Choose a different perspective to change how you see things - the word "NO" turned upside-down becomes "ON”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

“We can't live like chickens in a coop and expect to be able to soar the skies like seagulls”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

“My grandfather's early training and admonition that 'Viking kids don't cry' has helped me to have courage and a strong will. Some call it foolhardy and stubborn but it has served me well.”
― Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Happiness in Living Color

“Better to be shoeless than bookless.”
― Icelandic Proverb

“Better to go barefoot than without books”
― Icelandic Proverb

“The Bold and the Generous have the best lives”
― Icelandic Proverb