Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

- William Saroyan (via gordonkhoo)

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

- Ursula K. Le Guin (via martinaboone)

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

-  G.K. Chesterton (via amandaonwriting)

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who
declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of
inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ojos-infinitos)

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

- Natalie Goldberg (via amandaonwriting)

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.

- Lauren Conrad (via ohhlovelynicole)