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“Most importantly, it’s about doing stuff
instead of wishing you had done stuff.”
—Christiann Van Vuuren
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 31
“Writing is 30% crying, 50% hating everything about your book,
and 20% making emotional Nobel Prize acceptance speeches
in the shower.”
—John Hansen
Tweeted by @ABoredAuthor on January 25
“Write the book the way it should be written,
then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”
—Elmore Leonard
Tweeted by @GarLaSalle on January 24
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
—Gloria Steinem
Tweeted by @carlyayres on January 21
“What we make, makes us.”
—Richard Boehmcke
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 21
“I write to believe in goodness.”
―Red Haircrow
Tweeted by @ChiWritersConf on January 20
“Customers will never love a company
until the employees love it first.”
—Simon Sinek
Tweeted by @swissmiss on January 20
“The best time to start reading more books was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now!”
—Chinese Proverb
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 20
“I miss my pre-Internet brain.”
—Lauren Currie
Tweeted by @Redjotter on January 20
“Pretending you know what you’re doing
is almost the same as knowing what you are doing…”
—Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
Tweeted by @onefloorup on January 17
“Failure is not much of a thing at all. It’s mostly a point of view.”
—Ben Pieratt
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 17
“It annoys me every day that when people refer to ‘business,’
they mean big biz—and blithely ignore tens
of thousands of awesome small biz.”
—Tom Peters
Tweeted by @tom_peters on January 16
“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
—George Gordon Byron
Tweeted by @ChiWritersConf on January 16
“Cultures cherish artists because they are people
who can say, ‘Look at that!’”
—Marilynne Robinson
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16
“I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”
—Erskine Caldwell
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16
“The key to making teams more agile and more lean isn’t the process, but the amount of understanding the teams share.”
—Peter Morville
Tweeted by @morville on January 16
“If the work weren’t difficult, I’d die of boredom.”
—William Gaddis
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16
“Education means making creators…inventors, innovators,
not conformists.”
—Jean Piaget
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 14
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened
before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
—Fran Lebowitz
Tweeted by @christinaebohn on January 14
“If you ask the wrong questions, any answer is useless.
Figure out what you really need to know.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 14
“Focus your marketing solely on ideal clients,
otherwise you’ll take on poor and distracting business.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 14
“You can find out how to do something and then do it
or do something and then find out what you did.”
—Isamu Noguchi
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on January 14
“Everybody hates advertising until they have something to sell.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on January 13
“We stigmatize mistakes, and the result is that we are educating people
out of their creative capacities.”
—Ken Robinson
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 13
“Words aren’t written by an invisible author-god.
They represent the efforts of flesh-and-blood.”
—Paul Auster
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12
“I write what I don’t know.”
—Robert Creeley
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12
“The good thing about writing books is that you can dream
while you are awake.”
—Haruki Murakami
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12
“To be creative, first empty your mind of the preconceptions
and self-limiting beliefs.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 12
“A novel does not exist until it is published and in the hands
of the readers. Until then, it is pure phantasmagoria.”
—José Cela
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 11
“You can’t do it all. But you can sure as hell try.”
—Duane King
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on January 11
“Maybe we’re going to be able to teach the world something
about authenticity and love.”
—Jill Soloway
Tweeted by @DerrickClifton on January 11
“We are really, really good at staying busy. Sometimes the challenge
is in knowing when you should just take it easy for a little while.”
—Megan Johnson
Tweeted by @tipsy_writer on January 11
“I’m (pleasantly) surprised some of these newspapers
are still reviewing books.”
—John McQuaid
Tweeted by @johnmcquaid on January 11
“Mentoring opportunities will often come to those
who continue to learn regardless of their age
or expertise and yet remain humble.”
—Jim Martin
Tweeted by @JimMartin on January 11
“An idea is only as great as it is well-executed.”
—Mana Ionescu
Tweeted by @MadeInChicagoSB on January 11
“Don’t freeze fearing imperfection. Move forward anticipating success.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 11
“The novel makes itself, I make it, and it makes me.”
—Claude Simon
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 10
“Whatever you believe, whatever your worldview,
the Earth is not 6,000 years old.”
—Bill Nye
Tweeted by @scifri on January 10
“It’s astounding to hear what someone admires in you.
I don’t know why we don’t compliment one another all the time.”
—Mandy Len Catron
Tweeted by @marshallk on January 10
“All my writing was born out of anger.
In order to contain it, I had to write.”
—Elie Weisel
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 10
“I think a writer’s life is the ideal life.”
—P. G. Wodehouse
Tweeted by @johnsonwhitney on January 10
“Every single book or painting or piece of music exists
and we take from it what we need.”
—Kaulie Lewis
Tweeted by @The_Millions on January 10
“When people say they’re doing research, I say,
‘You’re just postponing writing.’”
—Mary Karr
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9
“Art is craft, not inspiration.”
—Stephen Sondheim
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9
“With me, a story usually begins with a single idea
or memory or mental picture.”
—William Faulkner
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9
“Anyone who tries to fit the world into binaries is necessarily fragile.”
—Hari Kunzru
Tweeted by @emilynussbaum on January 8
“Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.”
—Anne Lamott
Tweeted by @KMWeiland on January 8
“Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.”
—Heinrich Böll
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 8
“People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people,
they’ll relate to you, too.”
—Laura Busche
Tweeted by @stokefire on January 7
“Wear your heart on the page, and people will read
to find out how you solved being alive.”
—Gordon Lish
Tweeted by @AdviceToWriters on January 6
“We can’t practice compassion with other people
if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”
—Brené Brown
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 6
“If you are a really attentive and prayerful reader,
that’s the best way to develop that instinct [as a storyteller.]”
—Sigrid Nunez
Tweeted by @ErikaOnFire on January 6
“Ability is what you can do. Determination is how much you want it
and Character is how you do it! Go for it!”
—Diane von Furstenberg
Tweeted by @DVF on January 6
“Many authors spend too much time on marketing and social media
when they should be spending more time writing.”
—Mark Coker
Tweeted by @laurahazardowen on January 6
“Reading and writing should be the floor, not the ceiling.”
—Yong Zhao
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 5
“Aspirations are the gravity of the future; they draw you to it
as you build towards them.”
—Tom Koulopoulos
Tweeted by @ariannahuff on January 5
“Procrastination is a cousin of burnout—both are experiences
where desire and action do not meet.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on January 5
“To watch a Miyazaki movie is to remember what it was like
to be a smart and curious child.”
—Mike Hale
Tweeted by @zeldman on January 4
“It’s really hard to believe your POV matters
when most of the world denies it even exists. It’s a daily battle.”
—Malinda Lo
Tweeted by @malindalo on January 4
“Success is not always what you see.”
—Banksy
Tweeted by @thereaIbanksy on January 3
“Stay on your grind.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on January 3
“Claim your adulthood. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know
or didn’t do. You’re deciding your life right now.”
—Meg Jay
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 3
“Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity
for making a summary.”
—Lytton Strachey
Tweeted by @gretchenrubin on January 2
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
—Saul Bass
Tweeted by @JavinLadish on January 1
“We have a whole new year ahead of us and wouldn’t it be wonderful
if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe—next year this time—we’d like each other a little more.”
—Judy Garland
Tweeted by @tcm on January 1
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