"But if the writing can’t be made as good as it is within us to make it, then why do it? In the end, the satisfaction of having done our best, and the proof of that labour, is the one thing we can take into the grave."
--Raymond Carver
"Only have faith: the first sentence can't be written until the last sentence has been written. Only then do you know where you've been going, and where you've been."
--Joyce Carole Otes
"When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance."
--J.K. Rowling
"The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel."
--Kathryn Stockett
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo,
Translated from French
"The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second."
--Jodi Picoult
"Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience."
--Jay Asher
"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."
--J.D. Salinger
I really like the J.D. Salinger quote! Sometimes there are just some things that you want to say that are hard to articulate, but you are still really passionate about it. And, maybe by writing these thoughts you might even be able understand these ideas even more.
ReplyDeleteLoved your choice of quotes... I felt like they were more powerful than most.
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