Quotes (Miscellaneous)

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really
need it. " - Swedish proverb

"When I kill a man it's cause he needs killing." Sniper 3 quote

In time we hate that which we often fear. -- William Shakespeare

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- Mark Twain

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Imagination is more important than knowledge... -- Albert Einstein

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark Twain

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. -- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. -- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. -- Mark Twain

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing. -- Malcom Mclaren

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. -- Mark Twain

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. -- Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. -- Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994

But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. -- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' -- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up. (traditional Chinese proverb)

Love what you do, and you will not work a day in your life. – unknown