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The concert last night was fabulous! Loreena McKennitt's music is more than the words and music. It is the feeling, the story, the colors, the emotion, the experience. The music paints a soundscape and takes you on a journey. Molly and I enjoyed the eclectic audience and the beautiful old theater. It was a wonderful experience.
(Synesthesia note: The lighting effects for most of the pieces were more red, and most of the time the lighting effects fit the songs. However, for "The Lady of Shalot" I couldn't look at the stage with the red lighting because the song is blue and green with yellow shots of sunlight, not red!! The dissonance was a very strong feeling!)
A quote Loreena McKennitt shared last night at her concert:
“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.” Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
Other quotes:
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."Frida Kahlo
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."Joseph Conrad
"A finished person is a boring person."Anna Quindlen
"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong, distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive." - Jayne Ann Krentz
"This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are." - Terry Brooks
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." - Isaac Asimov
"Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper." - Allison Brennan
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." - Thomas S. Monson
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"There's no comparison between what's lost by not trying and what's lost by not succeeding." - Francis Bacon
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve
"I dwell in possibility." - Emily Dickenson
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"It never enters my mind that I can't do something I set out to doing.” - Anne Stuart
"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'” - Stephen King
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” - Agatha Christie
“There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that second-best is anything but the second-best.” - Doris Lessing
“If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.” - Terry Brooks
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.” - Cher
“As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.” - Walt Whitman
“It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise.” - Nancy Thayer
“A window of opportunity won't open itself.” - Dave Weinbaum
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams.
If you don't, who will?" - Jon Bon Jovi
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Brig. Gen. Chuck Yaeger
"The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted. And other people gave up." - Harrison Ford
"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world." - Marianne Williamson
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this." - Cormac McCarthy
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you." - Lillian Hellman
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." - Anonymous
"If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all." - Anne Stuart
"Act out the laws of your inner self, trust the inherent correctness of your instincts... In this way you will meet with success." - I CHING nr. 32
“Opportunities are all around you. Find one.” - Liz Jarrett
“There is no agony like having an untold story inside you.” - Zora Neale Hurston
“I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.” - Terry Brooks
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music words make.” - Truman Capote
“Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.” - Carl Jung
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Joan Didion
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” - Yogi Berra
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” - Keanu Reeves
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” - Jack London
“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.” - Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” - Malcolm Forbes
“The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.” - Terry Brooks
“If your ship hasn't come in--swim out to it.” - Mary Engelbreit
“The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.” - Chris Baty
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.” - Goethe
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” - Thoreau
“Beliefs are limits to be examined and transcended.” - John Lilly
“Your biggest problem is yourself. Getting out of the way and letting your imagination take over is the best way.” - Jerry Cleaver
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul - the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” - Napoleon Hill
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” - William James
“Those who identify with the Tao
Are likewise welcomed by the Tao.
Those who identify with Power
Are likewise welcomed by Power.
Those who identify with Failure
Are likewise welcomed by Failure.”
- Tao Te Ching
"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." - Crazy Horse
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. - F.W. Faber
“Sometimes it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what's required.” - Sir Winston Churchill
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” - Betty Ford
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.” - Desiderius Erasmus
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.” - Richard Bach
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.” - Mark Twain
“What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.- Logan Pearsall Smith
“Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. I wanted to know what I was going to say.- Sharon O'Brien
“The main rule of writing is that, if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.)" - Neil Gaiman
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham
“Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges, and do new things. - Ally Carter
“Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. - William Faulkner
“Believe that life is capable of unbelievable wonder. - James Dillet Freeman
"All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck." - MaryJanice Davidson
"I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer." - Doris Roberts
"If we stop we die, we're like sharks baby, keep moving through the water in the hunt for our next meal." - Karin Tabke
"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." - Cher
"Even my failures enrich my life. Maybe more than my successes at times." - Anne Stuart
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. - Terry Brooks
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in his business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong, distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive. Readers return time and again to the unique, the distinctive, storytelling voice. They may love it or they may hate it, but they do not forget it. - Jayne Ann Krentz
“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." - Dolly Parton
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
“Wake up with a smile and go after life...live it, enjoy it,
taste it, smell it, feel it." - Joe Knapp
“Some women wait for something to change and nothing does change so they change themselves." - Andre Lorde
“Don't be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin." - Grace Hansen
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.- Terry Brooks
I like good strong words that mean something.- Louisa May Alcott
A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. - Anonymous
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I have decided, on reflection, it is best just to remember that sometimes the magic really works. - Terry Brooks
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Human beings, by changing the inner beliefs of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
“You are never given a dream without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking. - Mahado
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom. - Anonymous
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. - Anne Rice
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. Anne Sexton
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. - Ray Bradbury
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery." - Robert Cormier
If you are hungry, you should eat. If there is a hunger in your soul, you must dream. - unknown
“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way." - Terry Brooks
"Be like Mae West, brash and bold and brave." - Anne Stuart
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
The best way of predicting the future is inventing it. - unknown
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. - Althea Gibson
Each day comes bearing its own gifts, untie the ribbons. - Ruth Anne Schabacker
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock
Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action; and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. You must keep that channel open. It is not for you to determine how good it is, nor how valuable. Nor how it compares with other expressions. It is for you to keep it yours, clearly and directly. - Martha Graham
I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say, get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable? Barbara Streisand
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
The universe is made of stories, not atoms. - Muriel Rukeyser
All that's required to write comedy is a sense of humor. And you can write it without leaving the comfort of your own personality. - J. Kevin Wolfe
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death. William Goldman
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. Tom Clancy
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
"Success is when persistence meets preparation." Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate." Jane Porter
(Synesthesia note: The lighting effects for most of the pieces were more red, and most of the time the lighting effects fit the songs. However, for "The Lady of Shalot" I couldn't look at the stage with the red lighting because the song is blue and green with yellow shots of sunlight, not red!! The dissonance was a very strong feeling!)
A quote Loreena McKennitt shared last night at her concert:
“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.” Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
Other quotes:
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."Frida Kahlo
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."Joseph Conrad
"A finished person is a boring person."Anna Quindlen
"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong, distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive." - Jayne Ann Krentz
"This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are." - Terry Brooks
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." - Isaac Asimov
"Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper." - Allison Brennan
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." - Thomas S. Monson
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"There's no comparison between what's lost by not trying and what's lost by not succeeding." - Francis Bacon
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve
"I dwell in possibility." - Emily Dickenson
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"It never enters my mind that I can't do something I set out to doing.” - Anne Stuart
"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'” - Stephen King
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” - Agatha Christie
“There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that second-best is anything but the second-best.” - Doris Lessing
“If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.” - Terry Brooks
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.” - Cher
“As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.” - Walt Whitman
“It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise.” - Nancy Thayer
“A window of opportunity won't open itself.” - Dave Weinbaum
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams.
If you don't, who will?" - Jon Bon Jovi
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Brig. Gen. Chuck Yaeger
"The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted. And other people gave up." - Harrison Ford
"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world." - Marianne Williamson
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this." - Cormac McCarthy
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you." - Lillian Hellman
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." - Anonymous
"If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all." - Anne Stuart
"Act out the laws of your inner self, trust the inherent correctness of your instincts... In this way you will meet with success." - I CHING nr. 32
“Opportunities are all around you. Find one.” - Liz Jarrett
“There is no agony like having an untold story inside you.” - Zora Neale Hurston
“I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.” - Terry Brooks
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music words make.” - Truman Capote
“Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.” - Carl Jung
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Joan Didion
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” - Yogi Berra
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” - Keanu Reeves
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” - Jack London
“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.” - Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” - Malcolm Forbes
“The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.” - Terry Brooks
“If your ship hasn't come in--swim out to it.” - Mary Engelbreit
“The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.” - Chris Baty
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.” - Goethe
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” - Thoreau
“Beliefs are limits to be examined and transcended.” - John Lilly
“Your biggest problem is yourself. Getting out of the way and letting your imagination take over is the best way.” - Jerry Cleaver
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul - the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” - Napoleon Hill
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” - William James
“Those who identify with the Tao
Are likewise welcomed by the Tao.
Those who identify with Power
Are likewise welcomed by Power.
Those who identify with Failure
Are likewise welcomed by Failure.”
- Tao Te Ching
"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." - Crazy Horse
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. - F.W. Faber
“Sometimes it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what's required.” - Sir Winston Churchill
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” - Betty Ford
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.” - Desiderius Erasmus
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.” - Richard Bach
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.” - Mark Twain
“What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.- Logan Pearsall Smith
“Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. I wanted to know what I was going to say.- Sharon O'Brien
“The main rule of writing is that, if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.)" - Neil Gaiman
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham
“Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges, and do new things. - Ally Carter
“Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. - William Faulkner
“Believe that life is capable of unbelievable wonder. - James Dillet Freeman
"All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck." - MaryJanice Davidson
"I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer." - Doris Roberts
"If we stop we die, we're like sharks baby, keep moving through the water in the hunt for our next meal." - Karin Tabke
"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." - Cher
"Even my failures enrich my life. Maybe more than my successes at times." - Anne Stuart
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. - Terry Brooks
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in his business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong, distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive. Readers return time and again to the unique, the distinctive, storytelling voice. They may love it or they may hate it, but they do not forget it. - Jayne Ann Krentz
“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." - Dolly Parton
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
“Wake up with a smile and go after life...live it, enjoy it,
taste it, smell it, feel it." - Joe Knapp
“Some women wait for something to change and nothing does change so they change themselves." - Andre Lorde
“Don't be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin." - Grace Hansen
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.- Terry Brooks
I like good strong words that mean something.- Louisa May Alcott
A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. - Anonymous
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I have decided, on reflection, it is best just to remember that sometimes the magic really works. - Terry Brooks
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Human beings, by changing the inner beliefs of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
“You are never given a dream without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking. - Mahado
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom. - Anonymous
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. - Anne Rice
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. Anne Sexton
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. - Ray Bradbury
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery." - Robert Cormier
If you are hungry, you should eat. If there is a hunger in your soul, you must dream. - unknown
“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way." - Terry Brooks
"Be like Mae West, brash and bold and brave." - Anne Stuart
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
The best way of predicting the future is inventing it. - unknown
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. - Althea Gibson
Each day comes bearing its own gifts, untie the ribbons. - Ruth Anne Schabacker
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock
Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action; and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. You must keep that channel open. It is not for you to determine how good it is, nor how valuable. Nor how it compares with other expressions. It is for you to keep it yours, clearly and directly. - Martha Graham
I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say, get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable? Barbara Streisand
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
The universe is made of stories, not atoms. - Muriel Rukeyser
All that's required to write comedy is a sense of humor. And you can write it without leaving the comfort of your own personality. - J. Kevin Wolfe
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death. William Goldman
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. Tom Clancy
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
"Success is when persistence meets preparation." Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate." Jane Porter
