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A Collection of Quotes and Affirmations

 

"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention.
Be astonished. Tell about it."


--Mary Oliver

 

Quotes from Anne Tyler

"For me, writing something down was the only road out."

"My stories are never quite good enough"

"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."

"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try.  I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."

"When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it."

 

"We should not judge people by their peak
of excellence; but by the distance they have
traveled from the point where they started."


--Henry Ward Beecher

 

"What great thing would you attempt if you
knew you could not fail?"


--Robert H. Schuller

 

"You change your life by changing your
heart."


--Max Lucado

 

"Your present circumstances don't
determine where you can go; they merely
determine where you start."


--Nido Qubein

 

"Here is the test to find whether your
mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."


--Richard Bach

 

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in introspection."


--Anais Nin

 

"If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book."


--Nancy Mairs

 

"I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get."


--Anais Nin

 

"You aim your hand toward the paper
and touch something that reaffirms the life
running through your veins."



--Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

 

"No writing has any real value which is not
the
expression of genuine thought and feeling."


-- Eleanor Roosevelt

 
 

SMILES

 


"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."


--Casey Stengel

 


"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."


--Mark Twain

 


"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."


--Lily Tomlin