Quotes

“In a way, I used up some of my loneliness by writing.” – Truman Capote

“The art of writing, like every other art, is simpler in practice than the books about it.” – Henry Seidal Canby, Better Writing

“You may write down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou

“The truth is that the world’s great writers are apt to become the world’s great bores.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, On Reading Shakespeare

“The only thing I can pass on to a younger writer is that: read.” – Walter Percy, The Charlotte Observer

“A shallow mind thinks his writing divine; a man of sense imagines he writes tolerably well.”

“Rage is to writers what water is to fish.” – Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles

“The writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously.” – Sigmund Freud, The Poet and Day-Dreaming

“We blame the world for our boredom, for our defeats, and forget that we let slip the impetuous force that justifies everything: the manifestation of Agape in the form of Enthusiasm.” – Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“If there was a particular house you wanted, or a particular relationship or job you wanted, and you didn’t get it, the Universe is telling you that it was not good enough and did not match your dream. It is also telling you that it has something BETTER and more worthy of you. Something better is coming…you’re allowed to be excited!” – Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Daily Teachings