"Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going."

-- William Zinsser

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Hey sexy boy, set me free, don't be so shy, play with me My dirty boy, can't you see, you are the one for meeeee.”
“The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
“Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.”
“What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?”
“At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.”

Source : Gibbs (Sir Philip Hamilton.), Philip Gibbs (1933). “Ways of Escape”
“Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

Source : "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.
“We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.”
“It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

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