#nspirational

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#writing-inspiration #writing-philosophy #inspirational

Minn, I love you the way you're today, nonetheless before I wanted fate to fare you better Fate is faring me best with you by my side I'm not perfect So do I I'm still adjusting with the new me W'll get through it together We've never had anything to do with each other before We'll start from step one We need time to work things out We have forever ↗

— Hlovate

#inspirational

Don't write off a book (or person, or movie) just because it had a pink, sparkly cover. ↗

— Abby McDonald

#motto #inspirational

I wish...I could've lived my life...without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time...we push forward. It's all we can do. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#wisdom #inspirational

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more. ↗

— Helen Keller

#inspirational

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. :) ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#inspirational

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. ↗

— Yann Martel (Author)

#inspirational

O singură femeie e uneori de ajuns pentru a suprima deşertul unuo bărbat. ↗

— Octavian Paler

#inspirational

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#author-quotes #creative-process #earning-a-living #gift #humor