Always give a book a chance, whether you're reading it or writing it. If you don't, you'll never know all the amazing characters you could've met, the incredible worlds you could've gone to, or the things you could've felt. Just keep going. Every story deserves to be heard.

Sometimes you're an antagonist in someone else's story. Sometimes you're just a side character or a friend. You might've only shown up once, but even so, don't forget that you're the main character of your own story. You have importance.

"I don't want to impress, I want to inspire." -Keith Urban

"You were born with the ability to change someone's life. Don't ever waste it." -Unknown

"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." -J.K Rowling

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." -Milton Berle

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." -Robert Cormier

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein

"In the end, we'll all become stories." -Margaret Atwood

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead." -Hemingway

"I'm a writer. Therefore. I am not sane." -Edgar Allen Poe

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allen Poe

"Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R Tolkien

"Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you." -Nicholas Sparks

"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change and the fear of the unknown, and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back." -Erica Jong

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." -Vladimir Nabokov