#yours

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#his #informed #man #same #spot

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#doing #free #means #more #once

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. ↗

— George Clooney

#before #film #films #first #get

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#cultivate #public #whatever #you #yourself

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#difficulties #isolate #keep #life #men

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.' ↗

— Hilary Duff

#believe #completely #lose #mom #says

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself. ↗