Tag: Quote

Albert’s Advice

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein Oh yes it is 🙂 Imagination leads to ideas. Ideas lead to rough drafts. Rough drafts lead to creation. Creation leads to innovation. Innovation leads to new inventions. New inventions lead to progress. And none of the above has anything to do with having prior knowledge of…
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DO It

“The only way to get something done is to do it.” -Unknown I almost quoted myself, but I’ve known many people to speak the above words of truth. Nike uses it all the time — “JUST DO IT.” The only way to get the thing done that you have been thinking about doing is to…
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Writer’s Block is BS

I found a copy of The Writer from October 2013 — I couldn’t remember why I had saved it all these years so I read through it again. On the very last page was a bio on Jonathan Maberry — and in the very last two paragraphs of the article he says: “Advice: First, STOP…
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Imagine

“You are only limited by your imagination.” -Unknown Dream Bigger — Think Larger — Imagine Grander — Act Now. -Clare Angelica

Poison

“Poison : The antidote is often the same substance as the poison.” -Dream Symbols, Dream Book

Don’t Underestimate Me

“Some things I cannot change, but the things I can, I will.” -Clare Angelica

Tom Robbins, The Fall…

“Eventually, I began to wonder what it would be like to take that fall. So one day I threw out the cigars and just let go. Falling, I must say, has been exhilarating — though, I may change my mind when I hit bottom.” -Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie Anytime you sit down to write…
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Tom Robbins Writes

“V S Naipaul: If a writer knows everything that’s going to happen, then his book is dead before it begins. Tom Robbins: In any case, my disappointment was offset by the fact that now, 100 pages into the book, it had taken over my life, had assumed a life of its own. I couldn’t have…
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Tom Robbins Gets It

“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination. …if there is one thing of which I am most proud, it’s that I have permitted no authority … to relieve me … of that gift. From the beginning, imagination…
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Advice From a Poet

“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur.” -Fernando Pessoa, Poet Time has no concept of intensity. Intensity can last a lifetime or simply a moment — but the feeling is burned into your memory. A touch between another that lasts only a second can send…
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Advice From Arthur Miller

“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.” -Arthur Miller Beautifully put, Mr. Miller. Your character is built upon moments (big and small) that define you. Every step you take is a step within the character you…
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Advice from Jhumpa Lahiri

“Like any artist, any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought.” -Jhumpa Lahiri, Quoted from “The Week” THIS is exactly why I write!!! I get utter freedom of expression and of thought. When I write, I get to say all the things that I wanted to say, but…
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