"I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process."

-- Gail Carson Levine

#Writing Quotes #Process Quotes #Hardest Quotes

“Iâ€™ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. Godâ€™s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.”
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.”

Source : "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.
“Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.”
“Arenâ€™t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandoraâ€™s box is a story parents read to their children at night,â€ she countered. â€œThat means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”
“Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
“I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Underneath the mistletoe last night. She didn't see me creep down the stairs to have a peep; She thought that I was tucked up in my bedroom fast asleep. Then, I saw mommy tickle Santa Claus Underneath his beard so snowy white; Oh, what a laugh it would have been. If daddy had only seen. mommy kissing Santa Claus, last night.”

Source : Song: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”

Source : Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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