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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
– Ann Patchett

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  1. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett
  2. It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day. – Virginia Woolf
  3. If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. – Ann Patchett
  4. A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn’t be in business. – Victoria Barnes
  5. Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers. – Nancy Alcorn
  6. I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith. – Evelyn Waugh
  7. He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed. – David Frost
  8. Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable. – Billy Graham
  9. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. – Steven Pressfield
  10. I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. – Sonya Hartnett
  11. The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as -œthe stripper soundtra – Ann Patchett
  12. It’s easier to love a woman when you can’t understand a word she’s saying. – Ann Patchett
  13. Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book. – Ann Patchett
  14. Katsumi Hosokawa – (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. – Ann Patchett
  15. Oh, my love,’ she said. ‘What do the only children do?”We’ll never have to know. – Ann Patchett
  16. Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers. – Ann Patchett
  17. He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. – Ann Patchett
  18. One must not be shy where language is concerned. – Ann Patchett
  19. She didn’t know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out. – Ann Patchett
  20. …the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone… – Ann Patchett
  21. Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. – Ann Patchett
  22. The sleep he went back to was never the one he left. – Ann Patchett
  23. Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. – Ann Patchett
  24. Isn’t that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered? – Ann Patchett
  25. We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership. – Ann Patchett
  26. Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. – Ann Patchett
  27. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. – Ann Patchett
  28. As a business owner don’t think your limitations, think business; it’s all about business. – Vernita Naylor
  29. You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for businessThat’s why they’re called business socksIt’s business, it’s business time – Flight of the Conchords
  30. What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling. – Sunday Adelaja
  31. Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does. – Laura Nowlin
  32. Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don’t let anyone ever tell you you aren’t smart or brave or worthy enough. – Alex Hirsch
  33. This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up. – Corey Ann Haydu
  34. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  35. You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
  36. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
  37. The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. – Jennifer Niven
  38. If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  39. Too many people live miserable lives, but they don’t do anything to change them. – Denis Hachey
  40. I wished, more than anything, to forget. But what I had, more than anything, was time to remember. – Ann Somerville

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