My Fave Quotes
The Mad Hatter: “Have I gone mad?”
Alice: “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
~Alice in Wonderland
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye. That’s the trouble; I wanted to kiss you goodnight, and there’s a lot of difference.”
~Hemingway
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
~J.D. Salinger -The Catcher in the Rye-
“Your faith has got to be greater than your fear.”
It’s not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen in the future. It’s about the ride for Christ’s sake. There is no point in going through all this crap, if you’re not going to enjoy the ride. And you know what…? When you least expect it, something great might come along– something better than you even planned for.
~Along Came Polly
“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
~Marsha Norman
“There are always shades of gray. Nothing is black or white.”
“Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don’t know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you’d mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.
Trust your demon.”
― Roger Zelazny
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That is who we really are.”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
~George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947
“True love, the love that is buried down deep–that is the love that never dies. No matter how you try to ignore it, it lives in you forever.”
-Me (Laney McMann)
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
“The right thing and the easy thing-are never the same.”
-Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl
Scope is always good, it helps you find your way.
-Me. (Laney McMann)
“Eventually you realize that you can’t make every decision. I was always building–always protecting something. At the same time, I seemed to be losing my ability to move. I had protected myself in to checkmate.”
-R. Pattinson
“You can’t win or lose if you don’t run the race.”
“It is not our abilities that show who we really are- it is our choices.”
“Don’t allow your head to rule your heart.”
-Me. (Laney McMann)
One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
(Navigating my way through the insanity of authorship)
–So you’re driven by this demon?
December 6, 2011 at 9:39 am
Lol…it would seem so by that quote and Zelazny’s also. Writers are certainly driven by some type of madness I’d say. Not sure if mine is demons though.
December 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm