Quotes - Evelina (Vilnius, 65, Lithuania) Showing 1-30 of 60

#1

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

758 likes

#2

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

2475 likes

#3

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West

tags: confidence, relationships, women

1435 likes

#4

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

3382 likes

#5

“I’m very close to my dad. He’s about six inches away right now and snoring in my ears.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

205 likes

#6

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2610 likes

#7

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3681 likes

#8

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

1226 likes

#9

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: writing

960 likes

#10

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4683 likes

#11

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing

778 likes

#12

“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
― Steve Martin

tags: drinking, humor, writing

489 likes

#13

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: advice, writing

1006 likes

#14

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

tags: soul, writing

671 likes

#15

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing

768 likes

#16

“You are what you write.”
― Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta

tags: writing

349 likes

#17

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

750 likes

#18

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing

1540 likes

#19

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

814 likes

#20

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3929 likes

#21

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
― Robin McKinley

417 likes

#22

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: writing

359 likes

#23

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing

449 likes

#24