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“Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be”
― Paulo Coelho

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”
― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
― Agatha Christie

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
― Claude Monet

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
― Muhammad Ali

“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
― Will Durant

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.

...You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If you put off your dreams today, you create the momentum to put the off all the way to you deathbed.”
― Grant Faulkner, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo