"Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight."
- Joss Whedon
"Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing."
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
"Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George M..."
- Karen Russell
"Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!"
- Jennifer Niven
"Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but ..."
- Drexel Deal
"Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
- Augusten Burroughs
"Find your fucking balls, Mitch, and reattach them!"
- Jacquelyn Ayres
"Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second th..."
- Isaac Babel
"DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you."
- L.J. Smith