Quotes to Inspire the Writer Within

"If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn." 

- Charlie Parker

 

�Yes, there is meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.� 

- Logan Pearsall Smith 

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its inntellectual eye. 

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 

I'm not a little girl from a little town planning to make it in the big town, I'm a big girl from a big town, and I have every intention of making it in this small town. 

- Mae West. 
  A year later, she was the biggest star in Hollywood.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. 

- Cynthia Heimel 

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. 

- Rene Auberjonois 

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. 

- Alan Watts 

 

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. 

- Ethel Barrymore 

 

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. 

Anonymous 

 

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James Matthew Barrie 

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. 

- Spider Robinson 3

 

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it." 

- Goethe (Contributed by Katherine Higdon, who adds,
  "AND THEN KEEP AT IT UNTIL YOU SUCCEED.") 

Collected by historical romance novelist Gwyneth Atlee