Paper Hearts, Volume 1 Quotes

“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“It’s not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Failure makes the success worth it.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Don't stagnate because of fear.”
― Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice