Inspirational Quotes

Keep your spirits up, for the demons are scared of salvation.

~ Hamsa Priya Selvam

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.

~ Salman Rushdie

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

~ Orson Scott Card

A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.

~ Rachel Skatvold

Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories.

~ Corey Dale-Gardener

...and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we dedicate ourselves to removing the walls from within.

~ Dawn Kohler

If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they were only lines that could be erased when I didn’t feel them anymore or hopeful thoughts that, like shadows, would disappear when the sun went away. - Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

~ Holly Michael

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

~ Arti Honrao

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

~ Susi Moore

Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse

~ Elysse Poetis

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

~ Virginia Woolf

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

~ Alison Croggon

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

~ Brittany Hawes

Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.

~ Hamza Hassan Sheikh

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

~ Stephen King

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

~ Christina Westover

I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into Douglas's soft sand I had sunk. Magellan's letters, which Douglas had recited, had become part of my being. It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my path. I was going to follow his dream, but still, I wished I knew why.

~ Celma Ribeiro

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

~ Don Roff

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

~ Christopher Fry

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.

~ Prakhar Bansal

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

~ Rahul Rampal

Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and an animal should never be placed in a position where he needs to be concerned about such things. But this is not that time.

~ Tara Pollard

I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before.... I am going to take you places where no one has ever been. I am going to take you to heights where no one has ever reached. If you will only come to me with all your heart, I will do a mighty work in you, which no man can undo but yourself.

~ M.j. Chrisman

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

~ M.j. Chrisman

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

~ M.j. Chrisman

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

~ Anaïs Nin

It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.

~ Cassandra Duffy

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.

~ Justine Larbalestier

You have some balls.Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...

~ E. Lockhart

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York? she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, If I'd left, you never would have been born. I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

~ Gloria Steinem

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word silence...In one another we will never be lacking.

~ Hélène Cixous

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

~ Geraldine Brooks

You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul - you are disappointed.

~ Edith Södergran

I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,” Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.”“We’ll make it beautiful, you’ll see. Or better, we’ll make it powerful.

~ Clémentine Beauvais

Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210

~ Amish Tripathi

And, and to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton