Nicole Archer > Nicole's Quotes

“I love your hairless chest.” She nuzzled his pecs. “So smooth and sculpted. Like a marble manslut statue.”
― Nicole Archer, Road-Tripped

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

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

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing”
― Led Zeppelin

“I am human and I need to be loved,
just like everybody else does.”
― Morrissey

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.”
― Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.”
― Mark Twain

“I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.”
― Mark Twain

“[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.”
― The New York Times

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
― Scott Lynch

“If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.


If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.

Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
― Iris Murdoch

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching