"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
- Anne Sexton
"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
- Anne Sexton
"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
- Annie Proulx
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood
"I hate, hate being left out. Whether it’s not being picked for a team… or being picked for a team and then showing up and realizing the team doesn’t exist. Or that the sport doesn’t exist! I should’ve known. “Poop ball?"
- Michael Scott
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen
"The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something"
- Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?"
- Tina Fey, Bossypants
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I never change, I simply become more myself"
- Joyce Carol Oates
