#advice

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#interview #motivational #rule #the-guardian #writing

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #quotes #sayings #transformation #truth

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#eddie-van-halen #music #rules #music

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... ↗

— John Geddes

#forcing-words #language #muse #writing-advice #art

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #marriage #dating

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely... ↗

— John Geddes

#garden #nature #writers #writing-advice #love

The real question isn't whether you like Robert, it's whether you like yourself when you're with Robert... ↗

— Charity Shumway

#relationships #relationship

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful ↗

— Warren Buffett

#greed #investment-advice #greed

I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#advice

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#sweet