‘My strength is my ability to tell a story. And so, I’m going to lean into that. I always have. It’s all I have.’
-Lily Allen
‘My strength is my ability to tell a story. And so, I’m going to lean into that. I always have. It’s all I have.’
-Lily Allen
‘If you think you cannot do something, you must do it. You must do the things you think you cannot do.’
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
-Jeremiah 29:11
‘It is the things that happen in the heart that matter.’
–The Clergyman’s Daughter – George Orwell
‘Don’t let anyone say to you that nothing exciting ever happens to you when you are old. Because it does. And it’s just as nice to be seventy as it is to be young.’
–Agatha Christie (from the Mousetrap Man by Peter Saunders)
“I am not very easy frightened,” said he, “nor very easy beat.”
‘Opportunity knocks but it doesn’t pester.’
‘Do not neglect your gift.’
– 1 Timothy 4:14
‘Something is fishy on Mercury, all right. Everyone’s whistling a different tuna, and they’re all red herrings.’
As a writer, the stuff that doesn’t matter, matters too.’