#ding

I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of hero for someone like me, committed to the ethical and spiritual dimensions of my craft as well as to the technical ones, but a hero and strong influence she remains nonetheless. Source: Her blog. ↗

— Terri Windling

#inspiring #reading #writing #inspirational

Reading is not optional. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. ↗

— René Descartes

#reading #men

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#am #asked #been #catherine #create

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. ↗

— James Rollins

#articles #discover #geographic #head #i

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#reading-books #time #writing-inspiration #inspirational

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#dance #finding-harmony #finding-your-voice #happiness #inspiring-quotes

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#collaboration #inspirational #reading #writing #writing-quotes

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#thomas-hardy #men