Quotes - Sean (Bala Cynwyd, PA) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11254 likes

#2

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

3182 likes

#3

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
― E.B. White

255 likes

#4

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

2101 likes

#5

“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

3682 likes

#6

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7964 likes

#7

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

tags: good, writing

19422 likes

#8

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement

1439 likes

#9

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

590 likes

#10

“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
― Anne Tyler

32 likes

#11

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach

tags: editing, richard-bach, writing

496 likes

#12

“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

5986 likes

#13

“Every writer I know has trouble writing. ”
― Joseph Heller

tags: writing

190 likes

#14

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: on-reading, on-writing

564 likes

#15

“Write like it matters, and it will.”
― Libba Bray, NY 2010

tags: writing

24 likes

#16

“You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: writing-process

16 likes

#17

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

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4212 likes

#18

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
― Beverly Cleary

138 likes

#19

“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

31536 likes

#20

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18874 likes

#21

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

89204 likes

#22

“‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

490 likes

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