Writer's Digest Quotes

#1. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
[Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest, February 1976)]

Ray Bradbury

#2. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
[Writer's Digest, September 1961]

Harper Lee

#3. I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

Gail Z. Martin

#4. The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket

Emily Nelson

#5. For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

Sherri Shepherd

#6. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.

S. Kelley Harrell

#7. As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

George Osborne

#9. It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

Hafez

#10. Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,
Which into words no virtue can digest.

Christopher Marlowe

#11. An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. All you have to do is close your eyes and endure the ... intense sensations you're about to experience."
"You mean the unbearable pain,"Bryson muttered. "Pain that's going
to make me cry.

James Dashner

#13. To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Bill Hybels

#14. I had to make her mine, she had to be mine. Now. Yesterday. Tomorrow. Every fucking tomorrow. No games, no more pain. Just me and her, loving and laughing. Living. Really living. Fuck, I could live if I had her. I could really live.

Lucian Bane

#15. Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority.

Beth Fantaskey

#16. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Justin Cronin

#17. My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.

Writer's Digest Books

#18. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.

Anne Rice

#19. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel De Montaigne