Quotes - Molly Mortensen (mollymortensen) (Mecosta, MI) Showing 1-30 of 114

#1

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#2

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#3

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, timidity

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#4

“Courage is exhilarating.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#5

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#6

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#7

“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

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#8

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

tags: good, writing

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#9

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#10

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

tags: books, writing

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#11

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#12

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#13

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#14

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6244 likes

#15

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#16

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6449 likes

#17

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#18

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

tags: writing

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#19

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5990 likes

#20

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

3541 likes

#21

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#22

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#23

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#24

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#25

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

2974 likes

#26

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#27

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

tags: reading, writing

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#28