To be a good writer, you have to look at other people's writing. You have to read. You have to learn how to put together a good sentence, a good metaphor, a poetic line. Or, you can read them for inspiration, for truth, for the pure poetry of the words. So, I'm sharing some of my favorite quotes from other writers (and others).
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart."
~C. S. Lewis
"In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy."
~Walt Disney
"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"
~George Carlin
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
~Maya Angelou
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
~Albert Einstein
I love these quotes. They're so true, and they're stated in a simple way. It's just... staggering how true they can be.
So, how about you? What are your favorite quotes?
Love the Einstein quote!
ReplyDeleteHere's one by my distant relative, the late, great, movie director, Frank Capra:
“Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.”