Preemptively Def Quotes

#1. Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Hayao Miyazaki

#2. I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

Gerhard Richter

#3. I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

Brad Thor

#4. Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

Francesca Lia Block

#5. I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Lee Grant

#6. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Whatever the Party holds
to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except
by looking through the eyes of the Party.

George Orwell

#7. Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

Robert Henri

#8. Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

Edward J. Fraughton

#9. Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Claire Tomalin

#10. At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

Paula McLain

#11. I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins.

Charles Stross

#12. When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.

Drew Busby

#13. Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

Ramana Maharshi