#pro

The Stars shine down and watch us live Our little lives And weep for us ↗

— Monet Nodlehs

#thought-provoking

But only a leper shows its sins to the world. ↗

— Alan Rawlings

#thought-provoking

A worst thing is thinking about health who show interest in non-vegetarian ↗

— Raghava

#thought-provoking

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? (pg. 113) ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#thought-provoking

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-process #writing-process

Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of all the hard work you put in when you finally start getting published! It's all about persistence and passion. And have fun with it. Don't forget to have fun. ↗

— Heather Grace Stewart

#writing-craft #writing-process #writing-craft

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. ↗

— James Robertson

#handwriting #ink #nib #pens #writing

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #sir-arthur-conan-doyle #the-final-problem #sherlock-holmes

You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #proposal #tessa-gray #life

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#assistance #bupropion #depression #future #happiness