Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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