"Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!"

-- Erica Jong

#Fire Quotes #Licking Quotes #Toes Quotes

“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.”
“There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.”
“As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!”
“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”
“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.”
“To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1852). “Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition”, p.60
“The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.”
“I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.”

You may also like:

Anais Nin
Author
Charles Simic
Poet
David Lehman
Poet
Doreen Virtue
Author
Henry Miller
Writer
James Salter
Novelist
Jorie Graham
Poet
Sappho
Lyric poet
Sharon Olds
Poet