“I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.”— Ryan Gosling, buzzfeed.com
“At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear.”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”— Vincent Van Gogh, vangoghletters.org
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com
“Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.”— Ivan Pavlov, amazon.com
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”— Osho, amazon.com
“There’s something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day you’re a bit more defensive.”— Alex Turner, uncut.co.uk
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”— Roland Barthes, amazon.com
“You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com