People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Haruki Murakami

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

First, a mistress that you dally and play with, then she becomes your master and finally your tyrant.

Winston Churchill (on writing a book).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have the talent for luck.

Hector Berlioz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz

A long time ago when I was writing for the pulps, I put into a story a line like “he got out of the car and walked across the sun drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cold water.” They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn’t appreciate this sort of thing: it just held up the action. And I set out to prove them wrong. My theory was that they just thought they cared nothing about anything but the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip up from the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just couldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell.

Raymond Chandler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler

The only things worth writing about are love and murder.

Aksel Sandemose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Sandemose

Rejection is the sand in the oyster, the irritant that ultimately produces the pearl.

J. Burke Wilkinson

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19517.Burke_Wilkinson

https://www.amazon.com/Burke-Wilkinson/e/B001HO7F6A%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can’t do it, I’m trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add that chip on my shoulder.

Erin Andrews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Andrews