"I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.”
“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...”
“How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.”
“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”
“Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2008). “The Cupid Effect”, p.68, Hachette UK
“That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.”
“Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”
“I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.”

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