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Emily Dickinson:

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live live in vain:

If I can ease one life from aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Writing is the greatest of arts, the subtilest, and the most miraculous effect; . . . a war, an   earthquake, revival of letters, the new dispensation by Jesus, or by Angels; Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Ne’ant, Exist to him as colors for his brush."

"As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag. ’T is like a pebble inserted in a mosaic. Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing."

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  Robert Kirby:

I've got a friend who says he's an atheist . . . (He) says I'm going to be real disappointed when I die because I won't get a celestial reward Like I've been promised. To which I reply that if there really isn't a God, I won't be feeling much of anything at all. If either of us is at risk it's (him). I'd rather cease to exist as a dead Christian than wake up on God's front porch some morning as a dead atheist. Talk about disappointments.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

"A town that boasts inhabitants like me
can have no lack of good society."

"Upon my heart gently, not smiting it,
but as a harper lays his open palm
upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."

  Jack London:

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

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Bruce R. Mckonkie:

The Church is like a great caravan—organized, prepared, following an appointed course, with its captains of tens and captains of hundreds all in place.
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? Or that predators claim those few who fall by the way? The caravan moves on.
Is there a ravine to cross, a miry mud hole to pull through, a steep grade to climb? So be it. The oxen are strong and the teamsters wise. The caravan moves on.
Are there storms that rage along the way, floods that wash away the bridges, deserts to cross, and rivers to ford? Such is life in this fallen sphere. The caravan moves on.
Ahead is the celestial city, the eternal Zion of our God, where all who maintain their position in the caravan shall find food and drink and rest. Thank God that the caravan moves on!"

Mormon:

And I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me, according to the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will.

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  Tristi Pinkston:

But it's so important to listen to feedback from others. I know I've said this before, and chances are I'll keep saying it because it's so very important. I have been saved from silly mistakes countless times by friends who had the courage to point them out to me. It doesn't matter how good you are -- there's no such thing as writing a book without flaw. You must ask others to help you hone and perfect it. After spending so many hours/days/months and even years staring at the same words, you get blind to them.

Never discount the importance of someone's honest opinion. You may choose to reject it, and it's your right to do so. But weigh it. Decide why you're rejecting it. Is it out of pride, or do you truly not think it will work for your book? Good criticism, given with the intent to help and not hurt, is a writer's best tool to smooth out the rough patches and create a fabulous work of art.

Thank You Tristi,  for helping me with my book. KF

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J.K. Rowling:

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

                                                                        -Albus Dumbledore-

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  Sol Stein:

A writer is a manipulator for whom the end justifies the means, a teller of white lies, a deceiver, all to a good end. He is also the shaper of the destinies of the characters he brings to life, a creator of golden idols he hopes some readers will worship.

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Mark Twain:

       On creativity/ideas

    You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. 

On advice

    Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

    Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can            become great.

    People born to be hanged are safe in water.

             A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

             I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

             My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) Everybody drinks water.

            Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should               be.

            The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Orson F Whitney

But remember this, ye writers and orators of the future! It is for God's glory—not man's. Let not vanity and pride possess you. Without humility there is no power. You must be in earnest. You must feel what you write, if you wish it to be felt by others. If the words you speak are not as red-hot embers from the flaming forge of a sincere and earnest soul, they will never set on fire the souls of your hearers.

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