I obviously love writing, and I LOVE meeting people who share my passion! My friends think I'm a little crazy, and people who don't know me think I'm the quietest person in the world. I suck at these things so I shall use up the rest of the room with some of my favorite quotes.


Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L. Doctorow

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.  ~Graycie Harmon

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.  ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.  And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.  ~Arthur Polotnik

If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop.  If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.  ~Carrie Latet

The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.  ~C. Astrid Weber

Write your first draft with your heart.  Re-write with your head.  ~From the movie Finding Forrester
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.  ~Sinclair Lewis

Young Allie: [Noah is about to lie down in the street intersection] You're gonna get hit.

Young Noah: [Looks around for oncoming cars, there aren't any in sight] Uhh, by all the cars?

Young Allie: [lying in the middle of the street] What happens if a car comes?
Young Noah: We die. 

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, they define who we are.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb