Quotes

“There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a typewriter and bleed” -Ernest Hemingway

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” -Mitch Albom

“It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can rides the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves” -Ken Kesey

“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them – if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.” -J.D Salinger

“I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.” -Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in The Rye

“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.” -Hunter S. Thompson

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” -Ernest Hemingway