"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning"

-- Anne Tyler

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.”
“People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.”
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
“I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.”
“I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.”
“I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide..”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it”

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