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 Michelle Tea
Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did... Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.
I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down,...
She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.
I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.
