“There will come a time…”

“‘There will come a time,’ I said, ‘when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this’ – I gestured encompassingly – ‘will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.'”

~ Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (6%)

Treat everyone equal

“Treat everyone equal. We are all born the same and die the same.”

~ Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki, Branded (11%)

Reading is like eating…

“Reading is like eating. If you don’t eat, you eventually keel over and die. If you don’t read, your writing brain eventually keels over and dies. It needs sustenance. Read as much and as widely as you can.” ~ E. Lockhart in an interview with Miss Literati

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“’After my name day feast, I’m going to raise a host and kill your brother myself. That’s what I’ll give you, Lady Sansa. Your brother’s head.’
A kind of madness took over her then, and she heard herself say, ‘Maybe my brother will give me your head.’”

~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Fear of a name …

“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A man of one book

“Beware of a man of one book.” ~ English Proverb

Normal Bedtime Story

“‘Normal’ is a bedtime story — a fable — that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.”
~ Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches (pg. 86)

Reason to be a Professional Writer

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.” ~ Leo Rosten

Parts Skipped

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