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“If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.”

“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”

Source: A Gathering Light

“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.”

Giving Writing Firsts Mean Speak Lines Sea Possibility Thousand Limits Giving Up

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

Giving Feels Writing Littles Giving Up Devotion Unexpected Worthwhile Not Giving Up Loving Someone

Book:It Chooses You

Source: It Chooses You

“When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.”

Ifs Want Giving Feels Should Writing Years Kind Goal Goes On Fame Giving Up Suicide Fortune Satisfaction What You Want Commit Personal Satisfaction

Author:Dashiell Hammett

“Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.”

Giving Writing May Mean Book Reason Stories Happens Care Reading Differences Answers Reader Giving Up Don't Care Caring Cruelty Good Story Not Caring

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”

Giving Writing Stories Past Spiritual Universe Growth Letting Go Giving Up Spiritual Growth Your Past

Author:Marianne Williamson

“If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition