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Ten awesome quotes

August 3, 2010 by Nicole 9 Comments

After my lesson yesterday I had fun reading quotes by authors I admire.  There are so many good ones!  In light of that here are the ten I choose for this month.  I’ll do this monthly because I believe these sorts of quotes are like balm for the weary/down trodden or uninspired writers amongst us.  Lets face it, we’ve all been there at least once!  So have a read, let me know your fav and I hope this helps to brighten your day.
  1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
  2. Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it. – Michael Crichton
  3. Evil is just a point of view – Anne Rice
  4. All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter
  5. Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees – boil vats and vats of raw sap – evaporate the water – and keep boiling until you’ve distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence. – Dan Brown
  6. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. – Deepak Chopra
  7. A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton
  8. If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  9. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. – Lydia M Child
  10. I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. – J K Rowling
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