Stephanie Flinders > Stephanie's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

“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

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
― ernest hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“...that most exciting perversion of life; the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should truly be allowed for its doing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

“Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.”
― Larry W. Phillips, Ernest Hemingway on Writing

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young
man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the
pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in
winter.”
― Victor Hugo , Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Adapted and dramatized in 2 acts

“Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, p. 215”
― Larry W. Phillips, Ernest Hemingway on Writing

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
― George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
― Aldo Leopold

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”
― Aldo Leopold

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?”
― Aldo Leopold

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac”
― Aldo Leopold

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free