Marcy Dermansky famous quotes

The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one you have to write. So I think when people have writer's block, it's because what they have to write scares them. And that's usually the heart of the book.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Block #Book #Writing

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Lifetime #Natural #Natural Law

I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life is unfulfilled you can either decide to be depressed or you can do something about it.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Realizing #Fulfillment

You don't just change your whole life in one big step. It's the small things you do every day that pull over to the big things, like taking yourself out for coffee and eating a really good dessert when you're depressed could be the start to living a fulfilled life.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Coffee #Dessert #Eating

I think there are some people who don't have dreams so much - they have a job and money they earn. That sounds sort of condescending, but I think having a dream just makes you more happy and hopeful and gives you a reason to have the next day.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Dream #Thinking #People

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.
-- Marcy Dermansky

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That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Writing #Done #Wonderful

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#Moments #Doing The Right Thing #Right Thing

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.
-- Marcy Dermansky

#People #Over You #Remember

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.