Joanna Maciejewska > Joanna's Quotes

“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place in the heart of every wife that loves, until the end of time; and it shall be called by my name. But if one of us must go first, it is my prayer that it shall be I; for he is strong, I am weak, I am not so necessary to him as he is to me—life without him would not be life; how could I endure it? This prayer is also immortal, and will not cease from being offered up while my race continues. I am the first wife; and in the last wife I shall be repeated.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life