Joylene Diener Quotes & Sayings

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you. — Lizzie West

Now try writing some pages to serve as later notes. Because you're not yet sure of voice or anything else, you're free from the need to squash in all manner of background information, explaining what year it is, etc. That stuff will just get you back in your head and drive you nuts. You're free to write as if all that stuff is in the reader's head already. It will be, by the time you get to this part of the book. You — Mary Karr

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause. — Janet Morris

Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it. — Martin Amis

You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different. — Kendall Jenner

If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. — Peace Pilgrim

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy. — Sue Tetzlaff

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. — Carlos Mesa

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question. — Jane Smiley

Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people. — James C. Collins