Tamara Woods > Tamara's Quotes

“I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.”
― Pete Vellucci, Jr

“Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.”
― Obiora Embry

“I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.”
― Ashley Ormon

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

“Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
― T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft