“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” - Nora Zeale Hurston

“I delight in what I fear.” - Shirley Jackson

“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.” - Charles Dickens

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” - Margaret Atwood

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” - Stephen King

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” - Oscar Wilde

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.” - Flannery O’Connor

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” - Maya Angelou

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” - Ernest Hemingway

“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” - Agatha Christie

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.” - William Faulkner

“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The beginning is always today.” - Mary Shelley