July 2012
1,432 posts
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle (via amandaonwriting)
“Good writers do not litter their sentences with adverbial garbage. They do not...”
– James J. Kilpatrick (via amandaonwriting)
“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or...”
– Donald E. Westlake (via amandaonwriting)
“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because...”
– Seth Godin (via amandaonwriting)
“I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via quotes-shape-us)
“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (via quotes-shape-us)
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.”
– Mark Twain (via quotes-shape-us)
“If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”
– Margaret Thatcher (via quotes-shape-us)
“Writing is the geometry of the soul.”
– Plato (via quotes-shape-us)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via emma5036)
“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in...”
– The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (via graceforanarchy)
“One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was...”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via thatquote)
“You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.”
– Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun (via quotes-shape-us)
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a...”
– Andrea A. Lunsford, The Everyday Writer (via quotes-shape-us)
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has...”
– Dejan Stojnaovic (via quotes-shape-us)
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via quotes-shape-us)
“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting...”
– Shana Abé (via quotes-shape-us)
“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead...”
– Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere (via quotes-shape-us) 