Ben Mikaelsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
-- Ben Mikaelsen

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You were born original don't die a copy
-- Ben Mikaelsen

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As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.
-- Ben Mikaelsen

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Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.
-- Ben Mikaelsen

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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Ben Mikaelsen famous quotes

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