#met

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#also #bad #bad thing #badly #being

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#america #american #american writers #country #feel

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#screwed #something #sometimes #things #you

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself. ↗

— Obie Trice

#goals #got #i #i love #just

Know the business, learn the business, own something. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#know #learn #own #something

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#attention #carry #center #changed #down

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#anything #better #changed #child #could

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. ↗

— Will Harvey

#chance #go #out #something #ten