Quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich

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Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier.

Richelle E. Goodrich

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scale...

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Life is mental; it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head.

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A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

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As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

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I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tin...

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I bleed words. I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds. I befriend figmental characters. I wish on stars in other galaxies. I harvest stories from a brooding muse. I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion. I am a writer.

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Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

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I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

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I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

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Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

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Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

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Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, .

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Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped ins...

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To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write. I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

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When I sit down to write I actually ask myself,

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Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

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A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

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I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But I write, I shall slowly excel at it.

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The hours spent forming a written work can make one obsessive, distracted, compulsive, and neurotic even, especially when it comes to those rare, precious occasions of streaming pure inspiration. To have a interrupted - to watch her scuttle back into...

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No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

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