-
“You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.”
Source : James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.168, St. Martin's Press
-
“I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.”
-
“What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.”
Source : FaceBook post by Jimmy Webb from Jan 12, 2011
-
“The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.”
Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK
-
“Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.”
-
“Anything less than the best is a felony.”
Source : Song: Ice Ice Baby, Album: Hard to Swallow, 1998
-
“By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.”
Source : Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield
-
“Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself”