No fooling, I think we should start a new thread.

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley

Thank you dialyn!! I fell down the the quote job during march.. I'll do better this month! :D

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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Spring is nature's way of saying: Let's party! - Robin Williams

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything." - William Shakespeare :)

"Next to the originator of a sentence is the first quoter of it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We're all made of stories. ... When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything."

"Here's a weird thought: What if everyone only has so many words inside of them? Then sooner or later you'd run out of words, wouldn't you? And you'd never know when it was going to happen because everybody would have a different allotment, it would be different for everyone -- the way hair colour varies, or fingerprints. I could be in the middle of a story, and then run out of words, and it'd never be finished. I could be using up the words I need for that story writing this."

• Charles de Lint, Memory & Dream

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Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." -- Harvey Fierstein

"I never feel age...if you have creative work, you don't have age or time." Louise Nevelson

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. --Josh Billings

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. --Cyril Connolly

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others." - Clarence Day ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The chief glory of every people arises from its writers." ~Samuel Johnson~

"The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to." Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American librarian, writer and critic, 1906-2001)

"Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance" Dan Greenburg

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." Phillip K. Dick

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'" ~Hilaire Belloc~

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." ~Robin Williams

"Don't wait. Writers are the only artists I know who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an actor, but far too many people believe that you don't have to write to be a writer. So instead of writing, they wait. Isaac Asminov said it beautifully in just six words "It's the writing that teaches you." Writing is what teaches you. Writing is what leads to inspiration. Writing is what generates ideas. Nothing else-and nothing less." - Daniel Quinn

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Often a writer writes just to maintain their sanity. Paul Theroux

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer And, if somehow you don't know who Helen Keller is, you should read up on her. Most excuses you have for not writing will look pretty lame next to the challenges she faced.

"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward." - Mark Twain

"The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
-- Albert Einstein

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy
is that one often comes from a strong will,
and the other from a strong won't."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer

"A writer is a lot of people trying very hard to be one person." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder." - Brian Aldiss

"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money." -- J. P. Donleavy

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Author: Toni Morrison

I think the last tool we need as writers of fiction or poetry is logic. I labored for years, in vain, trying to write stories that made sense, that had a clear and coherent meaning and form which I could understand with my intellect before I had created it. Good fiction comes from the part of us that we cannot see or control or understand. Only after we have thrashed around in that blindness and brought forth the slippery fish of reality in the grasping hands of our prose, and landed the thing on the page only then does thought and intellect come into the process. Vision is blind and hot; revision is cool and calculating. Only when I began to come to terms with that did I begin to write stories that were viable. -Thomas E. Kennedy, author of Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction