Vatnsdal Iceland Quotes & Sayings

The vast majority of you are going to close this tab without, even for a single moment, entertaining the thought of writing something.

Step outside your comfort zone and try something new. Learning the fine rationalist art of CoZE (comfort zone expansion) is a really important life skill, and putting your writing online is a low-risk way to do that. Don't try to cop out with "I don't have any stories." Baloney. Everyone has stories; write up a memory that's important to you. And don't even try to tell me, "Oh, but I don't know how to write!" Neither did I when I started; I learned by doing. So please, set the excuses aside, put something up on the web, and share it with the rest of us. When you do, drop me a PM; I'll leave you your first review, but you have to publish something first.

Well? What are you waiting for? Seriously. Go write one sentence of a new story, write now. — David K. Storrs

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody. — Kenyon Martin

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented. — William Osler

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday. — Etta James

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal. — Hunter S. Thompson

I don't claim to be an expert on love. I'm just a woman who has experienced a lot of things, and I want to share and hopefully my sharing will help make your situation better, because that's the goal. — Niecy Nash

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins? — Frank Herbert

I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.' — Birdy