Hoogendoorn Quotes

#1. People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that 'Creating Creates Creativity'. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote or conversation, and that will lead to another and another. It's the steps, the path, not the final destination that drives the process or writing.

Dick Sederquist

#2. Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.

Zayn Malik

#3. [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Lemon Andersen

#4. While your sense of humor is largely non-existent, the one saving grace is that your face, at least, is funny; and I silently thank you for this, and nothing more.

Dan Adams

#5. My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint hot chocolate to look at all the beautiful lights and decorations.

Caroline Sunshine

#6. Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

Buchi Emecheta

#7. Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

Anna Akhmatova

#8. As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

Prince Charles

#9. All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

William Butler Yeats

#10. Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices.

Asma Naqi

#11. [God] can ask a thousand questions that no one could ever answer.

Job

#12. You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."

Mitch Hedberg

#13. You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Dale Carnegie

#14. It's the heart that really matters in the end.

Rob Thomas

#15. Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.

Alexandra Daddario