#ow

The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears. ↗

— Patricia V. Davis

#women-s-empowerment #life

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#life

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #marriage #life

I think you glow more when you embarrassed. Maybe that's how you blush. ↗

— Kat Falls

#gemma-straid #kat-falls #rip-tide #ty-townsend #life

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#also #douglas #fantastic #fiction #first

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#character #fantasy #fiction #michelle-pillow #romance-novel

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted? ↗

— Rohan Perera

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-life #spirituality #life

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#detail #nature #show-don-t-tell #writing #life

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bad #because #country #go #just

Life: I’ll never understand it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#short-story #tony-takitani #life