Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

Ann Patchett's Popular Quotes

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. F…

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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following co…

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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for peo…

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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to slee…

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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running nec…

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