(3,251) Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George

(3,252) I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
"The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman

(3,253) Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what is cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
Ashley Purdy

(3,254) Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.
Zig Ziglar

(3,255) Dance before the music is over. Live before your life is over.
Unknown

(3,256) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

(3,257) Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.
Buffy Andrews

(3,258) You don't always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it because you want to; because it's fun; because it makes you happy.
Unknown

(3,259) Everybody has a chapter they don't read out loud.
Unknown

(3,260) You may be pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.
Katie Holmes

(3,261) It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

(3,262) When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
Will Rogers

(3,263) If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lilliam Hellman

(3,264) I don't think I understand people very well. I only know wherher I like or dislike them.
"A Passage to India" by E.M. Forester

(3,265) Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much more for them.
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry

(3,266) Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.
Zig Ziglar

(3,267) Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.
Buffy Andrews

(3,268) You don't always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it because you want to; because it's fun; because it makes you happy.
Unknown

(3,269) It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

(3,270) Don't forget - no one sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles de Lint

(3,271) When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.
Richard Hooker

(3,272) No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

(3,273) Don't handicap your children by making things easy.
Robert Heinlein

(3,274) If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
Bill Watterson

(3,275) There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to the one who is striking at the root.
Unknown

(3,276) It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

(3,277) I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

(3,278) Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne

(3,279) Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
"The Courage to Create" by Rollo May

(3,280) What they don't tell you is that all bad things must come to an end as well.
Unknown

(3,281) You don't protect your heart by acting like you don't have one.
Unknown

(3,282) People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me, walking peacefully on Earth is the real miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh

(3,283) The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars.
Unknown

(3,284) I can shake off everything as I write, my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
Anne Frank

(3,285) Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges

(3,286) A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle

(3,287) In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good and praise it.
Alex Haley

(3,288) Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem

(3,289) Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable - we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.
Jeanette Winterson

(3,290) ...And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
Robyn Schneider

(3,291) If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn

(3,292) Recognition is the greatest motivation.
Gerard Eakedale

(3,293) There was never any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

(3,294) Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

(3,295) Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.
"The Assassin's Blade" by Sarah J. Maas

(3,296) What you love the most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.
"Wanderlove" by Kirsten Hubbard

(3,297) Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go write it down, and either you over-dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath

(3,298) What is more deadly, the gun or the thought? The gun gives you the opportunity, but the thought? The thought tells you to pull the trigger.
Unknown

(3,299) You're either going to be a lesson or a blessing, and by gosh I hope I figure out which one you'll be fast.
Unknown

(3,300) It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself, you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale