(I hope this is in the right section.)

This is sort of random, but does anyone like quotes? Silly question, yes, but I LOVE them! I collect them. Here's a few I've saved:

~Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -- Barry LePatner

~Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. --Steven Wright

~You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of shore. –Dove chocolate wrapper

~“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.” — Victor Hugo

~“I have learned that what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” --Author Unknown

Hope you like them! If you have any to share I'd love to hear them!

I have a rather large collection of quotes from an assortment of topics: mom, hero, adventure, friendship. Here's a few of my favorites.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if…” And then do it.
~Duane Michals

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.
~Joan Baez

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~Steven Wright

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to life, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
~Isaac Asimov

Writers will happen in the best of families.
~Rita Mae Brown

The different between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
~Tom Clancy

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
~Thornton Wilder

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
~C.S. Lewis

Sweater – Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
~Ambrose Bierce

We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.
~ Ronald Reagan

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
~ Edgar Watson Howe



Ok, so that ended up being a lot more than I had planned to post.

“I am capable of rearranging the fundamental building blocks of the universe in under six seconds with enough time left over to move 30 feet. I am capable of manipulating matter and energy on a subatomic level by speaking. A mere flick of my finger is sufficient to alter the gravitational pull of the planet. I shelve physics texts under “Fiction” in my personal library! I consider the Laws of Thermodynamics loose guidelines at best! In short, I am grasping the reins of the universe’s carriage, and every morning I wake up, look to the heavens, and shout, “Giddy up, boy!” You may never grasp the complexities of what I do, but at least have the courtesy to feign something other than slack-jawed oblivion in my presence. I sir, am a FILMMAKER, and I break more natural laws before breakfast than of which you are even aware!”

-Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick

Slightly rearranged by an acquaintance of mine to be about filmmaking. It could also work for writing.

Awesome quote!

I've got some but they're in a dusty old notebook or word document somewhere. I'll have to go find them and then post some of my faves.

eruheran

Woo hoo! more quotes! I was going through some for a retreat I'm attending. I found many that I really liked. Especially if they apply to things in your life. ("You" being a general term.)

One’s best success comes after one’s greatest disappointments. –Dove chocolate wrapper

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas A. Edison

“Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God's faithfulness.” — Author Unknown

“If God brings you to it, He’ll bring you through it.” — Author Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. –Flavia Weedn

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. –Robert H. Schuller

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. –Author Unknown

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. –Timaeus of Locris

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. - Joni Erickson Tada

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. - Helen Steiner Rice

“Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.” –Alfred, The Dark Knight

There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. – Philip Yancey

AH! I LOVE YOU for starting this thread! I absolutely ADORE quotes.

the only problem is that most of my favorite ones are anonymous.

The players in hockey wear numbers because you can't identify the bodies by the dental records.

I'm sorry, if you were right I would agree with you.

You can either live for something or die for nothing

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get."--Forrest Gump

Someday your prince charming will come… mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and was too stubborn to ask for directions!

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Kimberly Johnson

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstien

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
- President Harry S Truman

Wow I LOVE these quotes!! I have to dig out some of my favorites too...

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
~Samuel Johnson

This is only one! I'll have to find more!

I love these! Okay, here I go:

"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." ~Jim Elliot

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." ~Elmore Leonard

"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ~Toni Morrison

"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

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." ~William Wordsworth

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." ~Vladimir Nabakov

"A metaphor is like a simile." ~Author Unknown

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it." ~Jules Renard, "Diary," February 1895

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." ~Author Unknown

"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer." ~Karl Kraus

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions." ~James Michener

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'll get some more later...

More quotes!

~If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. --Abraham Maslow

~Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. --William Dement

~I have never been hurt by what I have not said. --Calvin Coolidge

~I’d like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. --Mitch Hedberg

~Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. --Hector Berlioz

~I have learned that what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. --Author Unknown

~What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. --Eleanor Powell

~Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. --Bill Cosby

~Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. --Augustine

~Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. ---Author Unknown

~You can’t possibly know where you’re going, if you don’t know where you’ve been. --Ken Burns

When you are flying, everything is all right or it is not all right. If it is all right there is no need to worry. If it not all right one of two things will happen. Either you will crash or you will not crash.

If you do not crash there is no need to worry. If you do crash one of two things is certain. Either you will be injured or you will not be injured.

If you are not injured there is no need to worry. If you are injured one of two things is certain. Either you will recover or you will not recover.

If you recover there is no need to worry. If you don't recover you can't worry.


This is my favorite quote lol from W.E. Johns

"All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you." - Gandalf

"Pivots and divots and divots and pivots and pivots and divots and divots and pivots and pivots and divots and divots and..." - Shawn/Psych (say it out loud and its funny )

"Death is not a part of life, but war is death and that is all it brings." - Darjee (one of my MCs)

"It's magnicalicious!" - Gabil

"Don't be a gooey chocolate-chip cookie." - Shawn/Psych

"My brother just dove into a snow bank... WELCOME HOME!" - Me

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier, so I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." - OwlCity

"Periodically spray computer screen with insecticide to prevent system bugs from spreading. Sweet idea." - OwlCity

"Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has obviously never actually tried taking candy from a baby." - OwlCity

Thanks guys! ^^ I love these.

Here's some I have on my facebook (yes, they are quite random XD)...

There are only two things that are infinite - the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the universe. -Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid. -Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-Mark Twain

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-Benjamin Franklin

Fish and visitors stink in three days.
-Benjamin Franklin

“Even the smallest of persons can change the course of the future...” - Lady Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Death is not the end of life, it is the beginning of eternity.”

“Fear is more painful than pain itself.”

“With power comes responsibility.”

"The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword" - Tess, Kingdom's Hope

"A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him to find her." - C.S.Lewis

“Even as there cannot be true beauty without true goodness, so there cannot be true rule without true service.” – The Wise Woman, Crown and Jewel

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” – Sam's Gaffer, Lord of the Rings

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” – Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Courage is found in unlikely places." - Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A single ray of light can brighten the darkest forest.”

*dances* I'm bookmarking this thread. I love these!

So here are the inspirational ones from my facebook...

"When you break the rules, the rules don't get broken - you do." -Lisa Anne Wiggett

"'So what are you going to do about it?' Those questions are what heroes are made of!" -Elisabeth Elliot

"You can't out-give God." -Shaun Alexander

..."There is no shame in defeat so long as the spirit is unconquered." -Fenix (starcraft)

"Christians often say they support the light, but then turn around and finance the darkness." -Bob Smithouser

"Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible." -Amelia Earhart

"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense." -Amelia Earhart

"Never confuse the unlikely with the impossible." -Sherlock Holmes

"If a single tear fell from your eyes into the ocean
And then washed up on some far and distant shore
I would still recognize that teardrop
For in the end that tear would still be yours" -After the End (or the next day) TSO Lost Christmas Eve

"When it comes to our relationship we walk hand in hand with God. When it comes to salvation, he carries us." - KJ-52

"for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." - Robert Jastrow

Nice one Riniel. By the way I'm a huge TSO fan. And an even bigger fan of Savatage. They are the metal band that gave birth to what is TSO. Check out the cd. Dead Winter Dead. It's a rock opera about Sarajevo. The song Christmas Eve in Sarajevo is what started off TSO

Oh dear, I want to revive this thread, but I can't think of any quotes. I'll try to think some more.

Hmm... Well, I can only think of one quote off the top of my head today... And I'm pretty sure everybody's heard it before.

"Never does a man stand so tall than when he stoops to help a child." -Abraham Lincoln

* digs through quote collection * There should be another one in here somewhere... Nope... My mind refuses to give me quotes today. That's all I got.

I don't think I've jumped in this thread yet, but this is as good a time as any to do so

"To this Mary very gravely replied, 'Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures! They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess that would have no charms for ME--I would infinitely prefer a good book.'"
 ~ Pride and Prejudice (best part of the book, IMHO )

"Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues: because unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
 ~ Samuel Johnson

"If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it."
 ~ William Penn

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
 ~ Charles Eliot

Those are some of my favorites but I've got oodles more

eru

That reminds me of this quote Eru:
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
C. S. Lewis

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
- C. S. Lewis

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
- C. S. Lewis

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
- C. S. Lewis

“Much of Jesus' ethical instruction as portrayed in the Gospels is so challenging that it is unlikely that it would have been invented. What later Christian, convinced of Christ's deity, would have made up an account in which Jesus denied knowing when he would return (Mark 13:32) or was unable to work a miracle because of people's unbelief (Mark 6:5-6)? Who would have made him ask, "Why do you call me good?...No one is good-except God alone" (Mark 10:18), as if to deny
either his goodness or his deity or both? Who would have had him forbid divorce (Mark 10:10-12) in an age when men found it easy to request and receive one? Who would create a large body of sayings demanding renunciation of wealth in one form or another?”
–Craig L. Blomberg

“It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.” –Ron Carlson

“Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and overpleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.” –Malcolm Muggeridge

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and
is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He
has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” –C. S. Lewis

“If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the Christian era? Christ's church covered the Western world by the fourth century. A religious movement built on a lie could not have
accomplished that....All the power of Rome and of the religious establishment in Jerusalem wasgeared to stop the Christian faith. All they had to do was to dig up the grave and to present the corpse. They didn’t.” –Henry Schaefer III

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’”–C. S. Lewis

“Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.” –Martin Luther

“All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job....And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply
showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.” –C. S. Lewis

“Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inavoidable truth.”
–Galileo Galilei

"Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.”
–E. Paul Hovey

“The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.” –Antony Flew

“Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!” –Peter Kreeft

“I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.” –J. L. Mackie

“I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the
absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.” –Charles Spurgeon



That's a bit much, so I'll stop and be good....for now...

That's a good one! *squirrels it away*

eru

I love some of those Lewis quotes.

Stealing C.S. Lewis quotes is a favorite pastime of mine...

Me too. I studied his life and the life of Tolkien, their philosophies behind writing, and so forth, when I really decided to become serious about writing.

Yay! The thread is revived. Thank you.

Not true I wish my grandparents would stay for three weeks.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
~J.R.R. Tolkien~

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien~

“The wise speak only of what they know.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien~

“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”

~J.R.R. Tolkien~

I second that.

Third.

"Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. " - Charlie Moody

Think about that. So many problems in our country would be solved if people took responsibility for their lives and choices instead of blaming it on the government or the people around them, though, of course, God is the only permanent answer.

What you said is quoteworthy, Phylis It's so true.

“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but upon what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force! But Jesus Christ founded His upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.” –Napoleon Bonaparte I

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” –C. S. Lewis

“One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, or let's call it non-evolutionary view, was last year I had a sudden realization that for over twenty years I had thought I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up and something had happened in the
night and it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years and there was not one thing I knew about it. That's quite a shock to learn that one can be misled so long....For the last few weeks I've tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people. The question is this: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that you think is true? I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar at the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said, "I do know one thing-it ought not to be taught in high school."...The level of knowledge about evolution is remarkably shallow. We know it ought not to be taught in the high school and that's all we know about it.” –Colin Patterson, former Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London and editor of its journal, in a speech given at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 5, 1981.

“The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe...” –William Lane Craig

“Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.” –Lee Strobel

“Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.” –Greg Koukl

“The fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, could come into existence and flourish in the very city where he was executed and buried seems to be compelling evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.” –William Lane Craig

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.
~Mark Twain~

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
~Mark Twain~

Writing is a lot easier if you have something to say
~Sholem Asch~

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
~G. K. Chesterton~

He's a cool guy, if I remember correctly.

"The question is not, "Why is God doing this? Why is He like this? The question is not, "Why does He not answer me?" The question is not, "I need Him desperately, why does He not come rescue me?" The question is not, "Why did God allow this tragedy to happen to me, to my children, to my wife, to my husband, to my family?" Nor is it, "Why does God allow injustices?"
The question before the house is this: "Will you follow a God you do not understand? Will you follow God who does not live up to your expectations?"
Your Lord has put something in your life which you cannot bear. The burden is simply too great. He was never supposed to do this! But the question remains, "Will you continue to follow this God who did not live up to your expectations?"
"And blessed are you if you are not offended because of me."
Gene Edwards

I haven't posted any new quotes recently!

Here's some new ones. ^^

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." ~Mark Twain

"It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile." ~Author Unknown

"One man's daydreaming is another man's novel." ~Grey Livingston

Yes! Yes!

I found one!

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-Ellen Parr

I don't know who she is, but the quote is cute.

I agree!

@Aemi: Ooo! That's good! And it's true, there's always something to be curious about. ^^

Ooh! Ooh! I found the most epic writing quote a couple days ago! When I read it I inwardly shouted, "YES!"

That's awesome, Aemi! Good find! *thanks whoever the Japanese person is mentally*

Here's one from a Tumblr account "whatagreatlove.tumblr.com":

"Let God be the reason you do what you do. Let His Love be the reason you act the way you act."

~Calen

That's a good one, Calen!

Ooh...I like that one

eru

Amazing quote I discovered on facebook today:

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God - Hubert van Zeller

I just found this one here.

"I felt like everyone would be staring at me—bemusedly. (As if they were all writers, or something. Writers stare at people. And they write things in notebooks, which can be very disconcerting to highly-sensitive individuals. I should know.)" ~Lanier Ivester

I love it!
I haven't run across any good quotes lately, (well, there's those Shakespearian ones, but I don't feel like digging out my sheet of them...)

That's a funny one

I just found a few sufficiently good to post here.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
- Milton Berle
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
- S. Boorstein
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
- Ray Bradbury
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
- Orson Scott Card
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
- Willa Cather
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
- C. J. Cherryh
Never throw up on an editor.
- Ellen Datlow
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
- Nancy Ann Dibble
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
- William Faulkner
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'
- Neil Gaiman
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
- Clarence Budington Kelland
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.
- Jean Kerr
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
- Anne Lamott
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.
- Fran Lebowitz
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
- Cardinal Manning
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
- Dorothy Parker
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
- Terry Pratchett
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God.
- Sidney Sheldon
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, --happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
- Brenda Ueland
I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This did get longer than I expected... but I couldn't help but feel as though most of these people belong here. I see this sort of feeling and brain so often here.

All of those were great, but these three were my favorites.

I laughed quite hysterically when I read the 1500 words one. Fortunately, the rest of the house was asleep so I narrowly escaped being institutionalized again.