It takes backbone, not wishbone, to make success.

- Unknown

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

– T.S. Eliot

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. 

–Helen Keller

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

- Rudyard Kipling

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

- Vincent van Gogh

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

-  L.M. Montgomery

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

- Patrick Rothfuss

No two persons ever read the same book. 

– Edmund Wilson

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. 

– David Sedaris

If you cannot find happiness along the road, you will not find it at the end of the road. 

- Author Unknown

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

- John Irving

Be yourself.  Be true to that, to your heart.  Patience.  See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward. 

– Nora Roberts

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. 

– Jim Rohn

Go often to the house of your friend, for weeds choke up the unused path.

- Unknown

Everybody can write; writers can’t do anything else.

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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.  

- Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.  

- Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. 

- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.  

- Russel Baker

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

- Ray Bradbury