#books

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#men

Be the winner in your life! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#inspirational #quotes #self-esteem #winner #inspirational

Being a writer is a good, good thing. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#books #story #writing #authority

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#wisdom #men

You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#books #inspiration #writing #inspirational

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or low you take it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#motivational-inspirational #positive-mindset #positive-thoughts #postive-thinking #inspirational

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#classics #inspiration #writing #inspirational

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about. ↗

— Michael Ende

#childhood #children-s #children-s-books #good-sense #literature