Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIf you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard ShawMemories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart TolleThe thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy.
J. K. RowlingGod doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
ChanakyaIn my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
Haruki MurakamiI have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
Taylor SwiftMany people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart TolleThere are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace ThackerayI learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest HemingwayI watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.
Steven WrightGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor RooseveltEloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise PascalWhen I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
Ernest Hemingway‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘
J. R. R. TolkienA letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIdeas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. MaxwellWhat I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David BowieWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest HemingwayI have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin FranklinGrief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainI don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Ray BradburyThere are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. RowlingI can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
Paulo CoelhoI mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.
Mark ZuckerbergThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren BuffettPoetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George EliotA lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.
Lana Del ReyAs a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki MurakamiIf you wish to be a writer, write.
EpictetusDickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George OrwellA poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert FrostSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Bill GatesSometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice WalkerYou don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.
Michelle ObamaI could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
Karl LagerfeldAt one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne WestwoodLet there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson MandelaYou fail only if you stop writing.
Ray BradburyI’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
Haruki MurakamiI write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo CoelhoWhat we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous HuxleyFashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco ChanelWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerHarold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George EliotVulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
Brene BrownThis is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia WoolfPeople usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis BaconI might just write a novel next. I don’t know!
Frank OceanEating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston ChurchillFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinIt’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Aldous HuxleyThe return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel JohnsonI have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Abraham LincolnI wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya AngelouWhat my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski