“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose is to be useful, honorable, and to be compassionate.”
“The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the now.”
“You cannot save people; you can only love them.”
“The writer’s job is to breathe life into their characters and create worlds that feel real.”
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason.”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
“I am not a writer. I am a force of nature.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and solid, but I am a turbulent and active volcano.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
“The most difficult thing to give away is kindness. It usually comes back to you.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“I believe we are all artists. It is simply a question of whether we are aware of it or not.”
“We do not see things as they are, but as we are.”
“What is not said is just as important as what is said.”
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.”
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best.”
“I have never been able to decide whether to leave my lover or to stay with him, but I have always been grateful for the life he has given me.”
“I want to be a writer. It is the only thing I have ever wanted to do.”
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
“The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the now.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“I am not a person who goes to bed early.”
“You cannot find yourself until you get lost.”
“It is the function of a writer to create the world in which they live.”
“I want to write about the beauty and the horror of life.”
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.”
“Life is an adventure. The only way to fail is to not try.”
“We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad.”
“I believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.”
“I have no desire to have my life controlled by my fears.”
“My dreams are not a product of my imagination. They are a product of my heart.”
“I think there is a beauty in life that cannot be defined.”
“I would rather live my life as a poem than a history.”
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“I am a woman who loves words.”
“It is better to be honest than to be popular.”
“The art of living is to find the beauty in the ordinary.”
“We must not be afraid to speak our truth.”
“I am a work in progress.”
“To be a great writer, you must be willing to explore the depths of your soul.”
“It is only in the world of the imagination that we can create what we desire.”
“I don’t want to be known as a woman who writes for women. I want to be known as a writer.”
“The only way to find out what you can do is to do it.”
“There are no rules to follow. The rules are there to be broken.”
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
“I want to break free from the constraints of my own mind.”
“You must let go of the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
“I want to write stories that connect with people on a deep level.”
“The secret of joy is in the word ‘joy.’ It is something that can only be felt, not explained.”
“Every day is a new opportunity to change your life.”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“I want to leave a legacy that inspires others.”
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”