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1. “I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.” ― Louisa May Alcott 2.“Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.” ― Carla H. Krueger 3. “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ― Ernest Hemingway 4. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley 5. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank 6. “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” ― Albert Camus 7. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” ― Ernest Hemingway 8. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all t...

1. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert A. Heinlein 2. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Herman Cain 3. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama 4. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha 5.“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

(Photo courtesy: Wikipedia ) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, India's 11th President (2002-2007), was fondly called as People's President of India. He was a renowned Scientist and fondly called as Missile Man of India. He was one of the noblest human beings, and had reached the common man’s heart through his thoughts, actions and deeds. He was also a great writer. Some of his books are Inspiring Thoughts, Indomitable Spirit,Guiding Souls, Children Ask Kalam, Mission India, The Life Tree, The Luminous Sparks, My Journey, Ignited Minds, Envisioning an Empowered Nation, Wings of Fire, and India 2020- A Vision for the New Millennium. Top Ten Quotes of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam 1. "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." 2. "If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun." 3. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just...

Sometimes we need motivational quotes to fuel our energy to continue our work. Otherwise we may feel lazy and hesitate to go forward. Check out these 10 motivational quotes which will recharge us again. 1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison. 2. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Neale Donald Walsch. 3. “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” ― Kellie Elmore. 4. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou . 5. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar . 6. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills. 7. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”- Winston Churchill. 8. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius. 9. “People throw stones at you and you convert the...

If you are looking for some interesting quotes to inspire your writing please read this list. 1. A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people - Thomas Mann 2.There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - Somerset Maughan 3. Here is a lesson in creative writing. First Rule - Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite Hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to College. - Kurt Vonnegut 4. Just write everyday of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. - Ray Bradbury. 5. No Tears in the Writer, No tears in the Reader. No surprise for the Writer, No surprise for the Reader. - Robert Frost

1. "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems." - John Gardner 2. "Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." - Benjamin Disraeli 3. "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller 4. "We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 5. "Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do." - Orison Swett Marden

1. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~Mother Teresa 2. A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad 3. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky 4. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold 5. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle 6. My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare 7. We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin 8. When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Terri Guillemets 9.Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust ...

1. “Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.” – Zadie Smith 2. “That is why I write – to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.” – Paulo Coelho 3. “I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.” – Colm Tóibín 4. “I write because I love writing. I think I became a writer in order to explore my ideas and responses to the world around me, which I often found it difficult to share with others. Also I liked my autonomy, and a writer can choose his or her own working hours – midnight to dawn or whenever. The difficulty of becoming a writer never bothered me. I knew it was going to work for me sooner or later. And if you’re a writer you don’t have to retire but can keep on doing the thing you love till you drop off th...

This week I am writing about the quotes of some of the famous authors. William Faulkner , (1897-1962) - Some of his famous novels are The Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying, Light in August, A Rose for Emily, Sanctuary etc and many Short Stories. Faulkner won two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction. In 1949, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Five Quotes of William Faulkner 1. “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.” 2. “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.” 3. “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can ...

"Any fiction should be a story. In any story, there are three elements: Persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story." - By Malcom Cowley "When you start writing, the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words themselves." - By Alice Hoffman

1. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. - Bill Gates 2. Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. - Arthur Schopenhauer 3. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. - Jorge Luis Borges 4. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. - Samuel Johnson 5. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Joseph Addison 6. When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. - Daniel Craig 7. The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. - Moses Hadas 8. Never be entirely idle;...

Today we will see six other inspirational quotes from the famous writers. Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels…. by P. G. Wodehouse All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened… by Ernest Hemingway A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be…. by Albert Einstein A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. by Joyce Cary The task of a writer consists in being able to make something out of an idea. by Thomas Mann The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. by Agatha Christie