Category: writer
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
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I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
H. P. Lovecraft
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
Joyce Meyer
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
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If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
Richard Bach
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It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!
Joyce Meyer
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
Zadie Smith
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
Eckhart Tolle