WDA-Quotes! Part One: (Without doubt amazing quotes)

by NightOwl0_0 (a girl who is in love with reading and writing)

Here are some of my favorite writing quotes!

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
------Gloria Steinem

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
-----------Cormac McCarthy

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
----------Miguel de Cervantes

"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

"Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret."
-----------Matthew Arnold

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what he thinks about dogs."
-------Christopher Hampton

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
------G. K. Chesterton

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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

"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks."

 ------Sydney Lanier

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.  ~Abigail Adams

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.  ~Author Unknown

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.  ~Author Unknown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.  ~Burton Hillis

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.  ~Author Unknown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  ~Kimberly Johnson

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.  ~Paul Boese

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.  ~David Byrne

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.  ~Author Unknown

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.  ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  ~Dr. Seuss

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.  ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown