#or

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#advice #either #else #give #kind

The time to make up your mind about people, is never. ↗

— Philip Barry

#tracy-lord #acting

There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#hell #horror #sad

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#children-s-books #reading #story

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#stories #story

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#story

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#writing #story

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#stories #story

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#broken-hearted #heartbreak #story

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#story