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“It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.”
“Inspiration may not solve ones deepest or darkest problems, but it can be a light when no other light shines.”
“I wanted to thank you," I said.She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said."You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.”
“Its like theres a check-list of accomplishments that people expect from you. Like its the only path to happiness, this societal construct of what makes us successful and worthy. But, dont buy it. Y...”
“They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.”
“In the 'Life' of George Eliot, John Walter Cross gave an intriguing account of Eliot's creative method. "She told me that, in all her best writing, there was a 'not herself' which took possession o...”
“Inspiration do not come and cannot be found, it has to exist - somewhere, somehow. Do believe that what you are doing is the most important thing in this world, and do believe that your words can b...”
“I believe that what we want to write wants to be written”
“The gotta, as in: I think Ill stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out. Even though the guy who says it spent the day at work thinking about getting lai...”
“I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l ...”
“Unless you learn how to love yourself first, you will not be able to truly love anyone else”
“Successful people arent born that way. They usually work very hard, and that means constant effort even if its not hard, it is steady. People born to wealth need to work to keep it. A radical shif...”
“You will not publish 100% of the books you dont write.”
“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”
“Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.”
“Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation.”
“No matter how talented you are, if you don't persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small".”
“You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.”
“Write on!”
“Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay ...”
