Amy > Amy's Quotes

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“In love there are two things - bodies and words. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“There are no pure people.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain