Y Quotes
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“You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.”
“You write to be read. That is the bottom line.”
“You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.”
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.”
Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists
“You write to find out what you believe.”
“You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.”
“You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.”
“You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.”
“You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.”
“You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.”
Source: Hope In The Dark
“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”
“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”
Source: Hallucinating Foucault
“You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.”
“You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice”
Source: Lord of Fire
“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people
wish they could do that, or how many people talk about doing it
and never do?”
Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow
“You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.”
“You wrote me and all these other people into a story that robbed us of our free will. These past few weeks, I felt like someone was forcing me to do things I didn't want to do, feel things I didn't want to believe. As if an unseen force was guiding my every movement. You turned us from people into characters with stories that you predetermined. You were playing with our lives without even knowing it. And you put us in terrible danger.”
Source: The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
“You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I’d never write it that way now.” He patted his lab coat pockets. “Red pen—does anyone have one?” Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn’t say I was tempted, but I kept her under control. “Since when does drool make you powerful?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“You yearn for a bright past. I want to remind you to yearn for a brighter future.”
Source: Tajrish
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.”
Source: The Desire for Elsewhere
“You. Yes You”
Source: Second Helpings
“You, yes you are the impossible waiting to happen. And the only reason that that sounds impossible to you is that you haven’t been daring enough to push the possible out to the point where it becomes what you once mistook for the impossible.”
“You—yes, you—can overcome fear and quit living your life as a fearful person, just as I did. It’s not that things aren’t going to be scary; but God has given you power over them.”
Source: Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
“You, yesterday’s boy,
to whom confusion came:
Listen, lest you forget who you are.
It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.
You were called to be bridegroom,
though the bride coming toward you is your shame.
What chose you is the great desire.
Now all flesh bares itself to you.
On pious images pale cheeks
blush with a strange fire.
Your senses uncoil like snakes
awakened by the beat of the tambourine.
Then suddenly you’re left all alone
with your body that can’t love you
and your will that can’t save you.
But now, like a whispering in dark streets,
rumors of God run through your dark blood.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“You, you.”
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...”
“You...you always made everything sound like it’s not a big deal. You’re doing that now.”
His lips continued to curve on the right and the dimple appeared. Then he sighed and scooted forward, spreading his legs. His hands suddenly landed on my hips, and I almost dropped the cotton ball at the unexpected contact. My breath caught as he lowered me so I was sitting on the edge of the coffee table and he kept moving forward, the inside of his legs sliding against the outside of mine. The rough material of his jeans touching my bare skin sent a raw, drenching rush of sensation through my veins.
“That better?” he asked, peering at me through lowered lashes.
I blinked, having no idea what he was talking about, and then I realized that seated like this, it was easier to reach him. His hands dropped from my hips to rest on his thighs, and they were oh so close to mine.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“You! You and Death! Lovers who just can’t quit. That’s how we make the future.
The terror and the hope of that, as change goes viral.”
“You, you are a cockroach. No matter how many times we tried to get rid of you, you kept finding a way to scuttle your way back. And as much as I don’t like you, well, you are persistent. And even I can admire you that.”
Source: Candidate
“You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.”
Source: The Witch of Little Italy
“You. You are the last page of hundred pages I have written in my journal. Filling its pages with special kind of spoken words without a sound, and the I Love You that's been written and rewritten countless times. After all this time that I spent writing about you in my journals, can you still not understand? Only you can fill this quietness and emptiness, only you can take this grief away, isn't it obvious? Who else will save your soul and mine? God knows, it is you that will heal the holes and cracks of times.”
“You, you are, you're a great deal too good for me, and I'm so grateful to you, and so proud and fond of you, I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to. I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't.”
Source: Little Women
“You . . . you gave up eternity to come back to me?” Xian breathed.
Zhen smiled. “It wasn’t even a choice.”
Source: Legend of the White Snake
“You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.”
Source: Vampire Academy
“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?”
Source: The Iliad
“You…you make cheese? But you are cheese.”
“Do people not make people?” Roq asks rhetorically.
Cam leers forward, his lips nearly pressing to my cheek. “Would you like me to show you how?”
Source: Why Cheese?
“You…you mean a lot to me. You’re far from perfect, but so am I, and I think we’re both better now than we were when we met.”
Source: Hearts Forged in Dragon Fire
“You… you’re everything I look for too.”
“You. You’re what I look for, Christian.”
Source: Breakaway
“You. You sent that music into my cell. Why?" "Because you were breaking. And I couldn't find another way to save you.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury (Part 2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“You…you want me to argue with you? I thought you wanted me to understand you.”
Source: Stealing Phoenix
“YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.”
“You young folks today think you invented the world,” Aunt Will said. “Still, a dash of unlawful scrumping might work for you. A lot more folks have tried that recipe than my own, even if we don’t hear testimonials.”
She chuckled naughtily at that suggestion. Jesse giggled a bit herself.
The important thing was that her aunt was nodding and smiling again.
“But beware, DuJess,” Aunt Will told her. “Every cure has its side effects. It only seems fair to warn you. I suspect that a regular tonic of Piney Baxley can be potently habit forming.”
Source: The Lovesick Cure
“You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.”
“You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.”
“You young people are syphoning the anointing out of me. Syphoning it.”
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“You young people. Where do you think you come from, huh?"
"I arrived by stork," Raj said seriously. "My brother and sister by magic.”
Source: Rebel Hard