Mindi Scott > Mindi's Quotes

“[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.”
― Richard Peck

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace