People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
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Warren Adler
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook–a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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Virginia Woolf
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
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Glen Hirshberg
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
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Troye Sivan
More Quotes By Toni Morrison
You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think...
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door?...
Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to...
