Meplans Quotes & Sayings

All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement. — Jerry Lynch

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them. — Morris Gleitzman

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. — Renzo Piano

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers. — Brian K. Vaughan

Anyone have a pen and paper?"
There was a moment of stillness as the four of us looked around, totally clueless. The only things any of us ever wrote with were our phones. And there was no way this was going to be a vote via group text. — Goldy Moldavsky

He knew he would never let her down, but he also knew that he would not move until the time was right, no matter what pressures were brought to bear. — John Allyn

Leave it to a man to mess things up — Jodi Picoult

That's new." His gaze was hot and fierce.
"My cock? I'm fairly certain it's always been there."
His grin flashed briefly. "No Lio, you've been cut. Circumcised."
"Oh." I stared at the smooth column of my shaft. "That must have hurt. — Belinda McBride

What writing does is to reveal. — Rita Dove

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality. — Russell Smith

This was a double game: he was trying to save his childhood, to preserve it and trap it in amber, but to do that he was calling on things that partook of the world beyond childhood, whose touch would leave him even less innocent than he already was. What would that make him? Neither a child nor an adult, neither innocent nor wise. Perhaps that is what a monster is. — Lev Grossman

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well. — Tony Gwynn