Quotes August 06, 2020

“Maybe life isn’t about avoiding bruises.
Maybe it’s about collecting scars
to prove we showed up for it.”
Hannah Brencher
 
 
 
 
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
Eudora Welty
 
 
 
 
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
Elmore Leonard
 
 
 
 
You can’t fake it. Bad writing is a gift.
Richard Le Gallienne
 
 
 
 
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Truman Capote
 
 
 
 
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.
Seth Godin
 
 
 
 
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Albert Schweitzer,
theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, physician
 
 
 
 
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Dalai Lama XIV
 
 
 
 
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
I don’t regret my past. I regret the time I wasted on the wrong people.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Life is too short to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn’t treat you right.
Unknown