THE WRITER’S BFF

Sayings to help your head space

“And one day the girl with the books became the woman writing them.”
Kristen Costello

“The world will be saved and remade by dreamers.”
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.”
Narnia by C.S. Lewis

“Books were a safe space, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn’t alone.”
The Siren by Kiera Cass

“Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.”
Virginia Woolf

“I wish I wrote the way I thought; obsessively, incessantly, with maddening hunger. I’d write to the point of suffocation. I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns, manuscripts spiraling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing. And I’d write about you a lot more than I should.”
I Wish I Thought The Way I Wrote by Benedict Smith

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck

“I’m not choosing one of your paths, I’m making one of my own.”
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
Goethe

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
Stephen King

“Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes is was only a certain way to die.”
Vow of Thieves by Mary Pearson

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
Hans Christian Andersen

“We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.”
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

“You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Robin Williams

“Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.”
The Hammer by K.J. Parker

“Do the best you can until you know better…then when you know better, do better.”
Maya Angelou

“That it part of the beauty of all literature. You discover your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.”
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson