“A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?” IfsWantShouldWritingHeartSaidInterestWalksHappenedMy HeartAgreeReactionsManageHey Author:George Saunders
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."” WorldHeartLittlesArtistGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardMy HeartEnglandSpeakersAnother WorldChuckBerriesHowlin WolfMiddlesbrough Author:Paul Rodgers
“I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.” IfsHeartMightMovingMillionsSeeingHappenedMy HeartResourcesFellowsSorryDuesBoatCuriousBrokeBeachPreservesMexicoBucketsSustainingSurferBroke My HeartSan DiegoContaminationGulf Of Mexico Author:Jason Mraz
“It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.” ThinkingHeartDreamSongPassionLevelsHappenedPossibilityFootballMy HeartOne DayMusicianThirdsMy PassionPlaying Football Author:Vance Joy
“I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.” ThinkingWorldHeartCountryEnoughWantedWaitingHappenedMy HeartOur CountryOur WorldInitials Author:Joan Jett
“I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was hooked on Crystal Meth for eight years and did it every single day, all day long. I honestly have no idea how my heart survived or how I didn't suffer multiple overdoses, I don't get it.” YearsHeartLongStillsIdeasSufferingGraceAliveHappenedMy HeartEightHonestlyNo IdeaTragicMultipleSurvivedCrystalsHookedGod's GraceOverdoseCrystal Meth Author:Christian Hosoi
“When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.” KnowsLooksHeartLittlesSometimesCertainCultureBitsBreakGenerationsHappenedMy HeartLittle BitAspectPonderingHeart BreakPopular CultureThis Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.” GivingHeartLittlesRealBitsHappenedMy HeartLittle BitSurvivingCompton Author:Michel'le
“Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.” IfsNeedsGivingYearsHeartRealHelpingDealsHealingAliveHappenedEventsMy HeartThings HappenGhostEmpoweringBrutalDwellingStaying AliveClout Author:Joshua Mohr
“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!” MindHeartLittlesLightJoyUnderstandingEducationMorningLearningHappenedTeachingChangedMy HeartIntellectualSingingAll ThingsMiracleIntelligencePupilsEducating Others Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It had been two longs days since I had seen my Gothic mate. I was so preoccupied with Alexander, dreaming of the next time we'd be together, nothing else mattered. I didn't wash the spot where his tender love lips had pressed against my flesh. I was acting like I was straight out of a Gidget movie! What had happened to me? I was losing my edge! For the first time in my life I was really afraid. Afraid of never seeing him again and afraid of being rejected.” FirstsHeartTwoDreamTogetherNextActingBreakMillionsPiecesSeeingHappenedMy HeartLosingFirst TimeLipsPhonesEdgesFleshSpotsMatesRejectedNext TimeGothicTender Love Author:Ellen Schreiber
“My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.” IfsHeartTwoThreeFiveFourHappenedMy HeartPromiseSixAll ThingsLettersMy FavoriteContradictingFour Letter Words Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.” WorldHeartLittlesLongEndsWholeDreamBigsHappensCertainGirlFeltHappenedReadyMy HeartSummerLong TimeWhole WorldOne TimeEnd TimesAnnieSwellingBig Girl Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men
“You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.” ThinkingKnowsWayHeartPersonsMadeStillsCareUsedHappenedFiguresReadyMy HeartDareWho I AmUsed To BeUpsetScareCynicismNew WaysTireCountingBetter PersonLoving MeCounting On You Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?” HeartUniverseFeltHappenedMy HeartHeart Breaking Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.” MenWantHeartKindStillsFallGrowsLinesKnownForeverGrowing UpVirtueTakenHappenedMy HeartRainRiversWesternArtificialWayneHeroinesBe The Kind Of Woman Author:Joan Didion