"I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no."

-- Steve Wilkos

#Responsibility Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Rose Quotes

“Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?”

Source : Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books
“True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.”
“I think writers are very anxious.”
“I had this client I'll call Samuel. Not his real name. I saw him steadily for twenty years, usually twice a month. Over twenty years you really get to know someone.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.”
“A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.”
“Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.”
“Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.”

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