“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”— Rabindranath Tagore, amazon.com
“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”— Christopher Barzak, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”— Maya Angelou, businessinsider.com
“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself.”— Glenn Hughes, amazon.com
“You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.”— Natsuki Takaya, amazon.com
“I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.”— John Jeremiah Sullivan, amazon.com
“Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you…”— Madeleine L’Engle, goodreads.com
“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”— Morgan Freeman, wealthygorilla.com