Serita Jakes Quotes

#1. If you can't love or hate your characters then walk away from the keyboard. If they aren't real enough to elicit emotion in you, then they certainly won't elicit emotion in the reader.

Julie Harvey Delcourt

#2. Music isn't about music, it's about life.

Herbie Hancock

#3. Living with this gratitude elevates you ... You become a more joyful person. You become a kinder and more compassionate person. You become a calmer and more peaceful person. You become a person who lives in greater harmony with others.

Zelig Pliskin

#4. Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

John Steinbeck

#5. Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Jorge Posada

#6. True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".

Serita Ann Jakes

#7. That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be some kind of marker, something setting out a space, creating a space for what's going to come.

Edward Hirsch

#8. They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.

Doug Dorst

#9. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.

Gloria Steinem

#10. I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Pierre Beaumarchais