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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Joanne K. Rowling

Writing

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing Depression

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Children & Childhood Fairytales

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Finding Neverland

Children & Childhood Bed

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Children & Childhood Upbringing

When I was younger I always wanted to be an actor in commercials, then I realized I had a brain.

Oscar Martinez in The Office - Season 4 Episode 5

Advertising & Marketing

You need to create the illusion of success for people to pay attention.

Roy Halston Frowick

Advertising & Marketing

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

Calvin Klein

Advertising & Marketing

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Leo Burnett

Advertising & Marketing

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

Advertising & Marketing

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Words Magic

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Words

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Hollywood Undead - Lion

Words

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

Words Appearance

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

Words

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

USA Food

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Independence

Human Rights USA Famous Quotes Independence Day

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

Tolerance USA Independence Day

Not only are you wrong... but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatsky, you are an American.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 5

Robin Scherbatsky USA

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Johannes Kepler

Mind & Apprehension Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Sean Combs

Mind & Apprehension Head

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

Mind & Apprehension

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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