#tin

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #life

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives. ↗

— François Truffaut

#life

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#caine #fighting #life #morganville #morganville-vampires

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#writing-craft #writing-life #life

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#book #destination #galt-niederhoffer #girl #life

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft. ↗

— Roman Payne

#life #memories #novel-writing #novelist #payne

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. ↗

— Rod Serling

#writing #writing-life #life

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #respecting-others #respecting-yourself #thoughts-on-life #life

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#books #essays #humor #life #reading

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writing-process #life