Amy > Amy's Quotes

“Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.”
― Amy Joy

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”
― Amy Joy

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”
― Amy Joy

“I always knew the teachers were out to get me.”
― Amy Joy, The Academie

“Who we are now is all that really matters.”
― Amy Joy, The Academie

“That’s the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can’t make them all better.”
― Amy Joy, The Academie

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”
― Amy Joy

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land