A.L. Kennedy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life â€“ and maybe even please a few strangers.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Inspiring #Writing #Humility
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Thinking #Skins #Bags
Remember you love writing.Â It wouldnâ€™t be worth it if you didnâ€™t.Â If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Writing #Needs #Remember
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Writing #Self #Black
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Night #Bed #Looks
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Needs #Remember #Good Things
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Weather #Mind #Friendly
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Stupid #Feels #Findings
Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Environment #Stabbing #Surgery
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Writing #Remember You #Remembers You
Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Love You #Writing #Remember You

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