"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on"

-- Louis L'Amour

#Inspirational Quotes #Writing Quotes #Kids Quotes

“My compulsion is to create things.”
“When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.”
“You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.”
“I canâ€™tâ€”â€ Lena repeated. â€œI canâ€™t do it. I canâ€™t live without him.â€ Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jaredâ€™s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lenaâ€”really looked at her straight in the eye. â€œGood,â€ Sara told her. â€œNow you know how it feels.”
“But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.”
“Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.”

Source : Source: www.harbus.org
“Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a typical Chekhov story for you. Something that you're used to lying in bed worrying about at four in the morning, before you have the psychic defenses to kid yourself and tell yourself to get up and shower and go to the office.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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