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  • #1
    “Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”
    Diane Sawyer

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #3
    André Gide
    “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
    André Gide

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    Epictetus

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #7
    Jim Rohn
    “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
    Jim Rohn

  • #8
    Anna Bayes
    “I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
    Anna Bayes, Under His Wings

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “To write is human, to edit is divine.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #10
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #11
    Aberjhani
    “Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
    Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

  • #12
    Richard Branson
    “You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
    Richard Branson

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Good stories deserve a little embellishment.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

  • #14
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #15
    Amelia Earhart
    “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Thomas Hardy
    “I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #19
    Wendell Berry
    “The Peace of Wild Things

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
    Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

  • #20
    Wendell Berry
    “Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
    Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “If you're going to write histories, Tarly, you have to do the research, Archmaester Ebrose, Game of Thrones S7”
    George RR Martin

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not your voice, it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    Jalal al-Din Rumi

  • #25
    Guy Vanderhaeghe
    “History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.”
    Guy Vanderhaeghe

  • #26
    “Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”
    Anne Boleyn

  • #27
    Emily Brontë
    “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights



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