"You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself."

-- Richard Ford

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Influence Quotes

“There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.”
“The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.”
“Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.”
“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.”

Source : Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). “Lena”
“You meet someone and itâ€™s so much more than meeting them. Itâ€™s so much bigger and itâ€™s like youâ€™re enchanted by them.”
“Don't be serious, be sincere.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chetan Bhagat from Nov 13, 2014
“My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.”
“As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.”

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