“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.” IfsWritingWellsStillsI CanNightFoundDarkPlansOne ThingTomorrowSummerWindowEmptyPaidDuesGoldenMidstLitStormyInnsWriting Every DayStormy Nights Author:Tanith Lee
“But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.” IfsWorldFeelsStillsMatterMemoriesOne ThingAcceptanceBirthEmptyUnconditional LoveDeniedUnconditionalBeing LovedUnqualified Author:Michael Jackson
“We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.” FeelsHardCausesOne ThingEmptyInnocentMisfortunesTradingDiscontentDistortionBeing FreeThings That Are Hard Author:Amy Ray
“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayCountryHelpingFormOne ThingEatingEmptyFunctionHungerDietsIngredientsSteadyChipsCookiesAffordableCaloriesCorrelationSodaMalnutritionObeseInexpensiveNoodlesRamen Author:Lori Silverbush
“I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasBitsWaitingMy OwnOne ThingMomLittle BitEmptyMy MomHopsBossDishwashers Author:Deb Caletti
“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” WritingTwoIdeasStoriesShowsSeemsTogetherJobsSunClearOne ThingSkyRight NowEmptyNo IdeaIslandsSomething NewBuriedSailingGood StoryDump Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you” LoveBreakOne ThingFeetEmptyBonesBroken HeartChestsStomachTwilightCrownsPitsI Love HimNew MoonTwilight SeriesBella Swan Book:New Moon Source: New Moon
“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.” WritingFeelingsLightWhiteDoubtOne ThingPagesTasksEmptyAbsenceNovelistsVoidBlankWhen In DoubtBlank PagesWhite Light Author:Philip Sington
“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.” MindWholeSpiritUnderstandingOne ThingHeardListeningDemandEmpathyUnderstoodDirectEmptyEarsPhilosopherHearingChineseEmptinessFacultyChinese Philosopher Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg