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| User: | zenscribe (5405033)  Expectation of Extraordinariness is Ordinary
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul." —Cicero "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers." —Charles W. Eliot "So there you have it: a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell so wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books." —Ray Bradbury "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." —Austin Phelps "Books to the ceiling. Books to the sky. My pile of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them." —Arnold Lobel "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." —Louisa May Alcott "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid." —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey "To being with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love." —Vladimir Nabokov "Fiction is experienced universality expressed in imagined settings." —Sherry Thomas Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider. —Francis Bacon "You ought, perhaps, to include a larger allowance of prose in your daily study." —Jane Austen "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." —George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan "May your road be smooth and full of adventures wherever the page takes you." —Susan Charnley "I do not speak well enough to be unintelligible." —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." —Robert Benchley (1889–1945) "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." —Sam Rayburn (1882–1961) "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." —Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) Writing ...I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding, joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works... Grant me the serenity To keep rejections and disappointments in proper perspective An open mind to learn what I can And the courage to put the manuscript in the mail again. "Without discipline, drive and desire, all the talent in the world isn’t going to put an entertaining story down on paper." —Nora Roberts "If you are serious about your writing, set goals, improve your craft, and regularly show up to write, then you are a professional writer." —Diane Gaston "Don't just talk about it. Do it. Don't give excuses. Do it." —Yasmine Galenorn Writers Write! At every opportunity. Under all circumstances. That's their job. Their life's purpose. They can lose the writer within by their death but not by its. We seek and hide We break and mend We teach and learn We write —Nikki Giovanni "Writing to find my happiness, I find my happiness, writing." —Julia Cameron "Look, then, into thine heart, and write!" —William Wordsworth "I write because it's not only what I do, it's who I am." — Marianne Stillings "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own "Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing." —E.L. Doctorow "Writing is what I do. Rewriting is what I do for a living." —Ellen Gilchrist "Don't tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass." —Anton Chekov "Be confident, arrogant even, in your writing." —Mary Jo Putney "Fear is at the heart of all bad writing." —Stephen King "Fear isn't in her color wheel." —Dakota Cassidy "If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out." —George Orwell In der Kürze liegt die Würze. (Brevity is the soul of wit. / In brevity there is seasoning.) "People will tell you to write what you know. But really, you should write what you want to know because that's what excites you." —Bob Mayer A book comes alive only through a reader’s active involvement in it. The only unforgivable literary crime is boring your reader. The first line sells your current book. The last line sells your next book. "Finish the book you start. Keep writing until the book gets done." —Connie Brockway "The only way to become a writer is butt in chair." —Stephen King "The ABCs of writing are: applying butt to chair." —Elizabeth Hoyt "Bum glue." —Elizabeth George "I can fix a bad page, but I can do nothing with a blank one." —Nora Roberts "Kick that Inner Critic bitch off the island. She is your worst enemy when writing a first draft. Trust your gut when it comes to writing. Really truly. Close your eyes, see the story and write." —Elizabeth Boyle "A player on a streak respects the streak." —Bull Durham "Ideas? I get them at the little store around the corner. I paid a buck ninety eight." —Nora Roberts "An essential tool of the writing trade is a commitment to being alone in a room." —Orhan Pamuk "Believe. You have to REALLY believe, enough to work very hard and never give up." —Brenda Novak "Never ever ever ever give up." —Diane Gaston-Perkins "If you want to make it, you have to dig in, hang on, and hang tight." —Jane Porter "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail." —Caridad Pinero "There's never a good time to get published. You build a career book by book, reader by reader." —Debbie Macomber "Analyze. Learn. Map. Do... Celebrate." —Margie Lawson "You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t have the discipline to sit down and write on a regular basis, you’re not going to write or publish any books." —Nora Roberts <austen> Pray shew me how I might render my plain messages into a form better expressing my sensibilities. </austen> "Dare to dream. Dream big." —Lisa Shaw "Lack of courtesy is never an option." —Me "Even though I feel pain doesn't mean I have to be one." —Brenda Novak "Dum Spiro, Spero." (While I breathe, I hope.) —Cicero "Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai decouvert en moi un invincible ete." (In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.) —Albert Camus "La plus perdue de toute les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas rit." (The most wasted day of all is the one when we have not laughed.) —Nicolas Chamfort "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." —Viktor Frankl Doing is Being. "You don't have to do it; you don't have to want to do it; you don't have to believe you can do it; you don't have to think you can do it; you just have to do it." —Lisa Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." —Aristotle How do I become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. A song about hope, the hope that connects us all, supporting independent artists, providing fair play to those who dare to dream. —Song "Falling Slowly" from the movie Once Clothes that suit you, make you feel confident. Being confident makes you beautiful, happy, fulfilled. I am the sum total of what I know and what I do. "My life is my message." —Gandhi What happened...was in the past. What will happen...is in the future. What is now...is this moment. Thoughts become Words. Words become Actions. Actions become Character. Character is Everything. Bend gracefully with the wind. 'Twill allow you to right yourself again when adversity has passed. "What I admire most in a person is the capability for blooming where she is planted." —Lisa Kleypas "Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul." —Simone Weil "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." —Marilyn vos Savant, writer "Do not let reality push you around. Do not be sensible and kill your own dreams." —Jenny Crusie "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. —Gandhi "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should beging it derenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile leaving footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. "Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice." —Steven Covey "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." —Dr. Seuss "Be the way you want other people to perceive you." —Lacey Kumanchik Perception is Reality. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. "It doesn’t cost a thing to smile, or to take a minute to say thank you." —Nora Roberts The mind, he be a strange fellow. Where there's no problem, he creates one. Live Now: Happiness, Relaxation, Awareness, Gratitude, Consciousness, Kindness, Generosity "So shall it be written, so shall it be done." —Yul Brenner as Caesar "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. Our obligation is to not mistake slogans for solutions." &8212;Edward Morrow, journalist (1908–1965) The most prized possession – Integrity The most destructive habit – Worry The greatest joy – Giving The greatest loss – Loss of self-respect The greatest mood uplifter – Encouragement The greatest problem to overcome – Fear The most effective sleeping pill – Peace of Mind The most cripping failure disease – Excuses The two most power-filled words – "I Can" The worst thing to be without – Hope The deadliest weapon – The Tongue The most contagious thing – Enthusiasm "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts." —Barbara Enberg "Never eat more than you can lift." —Miss Piggy Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits." —Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), German chemist | ||||||
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