“I think computer viruses should count as life…I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” --Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) From his Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston,

“I am convinced that what are commonly known as ’the breaks’, good or bad, have fully as much to do with one's success or failure as ability. The break I got in this instance lay in the fact that my employer knew even less about the duties of an expert accountant than I did.” --Edgar Rice Burroughs

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.” --Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898) From “Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried” (1886)

“What a swarm of sophists you lot have swirled up!” --Cratinus (519 BC–422 BC) From Archilochoi ("The Archilochuses") (c. 448 BC) The above line is not a direct quote; the source only exists in fragments #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #cratinus

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” --Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (1948- 2015) From Pratchett’s essay “Let There Be Dragons” (1998) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #terrypratchett

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.” --Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe (1809–1849) From his poem “To M———” (1829) “Poe’s Complete Poems” edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 1969 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #edgarallanpoe

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” --C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) From “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Found in the Dedication #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #CSLewis

“Fear is the foundation of most governments.” --John Adams (1735-1826) (2nd President of the USA 1797-1801) From his essay “Thoughts on Government” (April 1776) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #JohnAdams

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” --Aristotle (384BC-322BC) From Politics Book 3 (trans. by Benjamin Jowett) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #Aristotle

“Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.” --Edward Young (1683-1765) From Night Thoughts (1742–1745), "Night II", line 91 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #edwardyoung

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) From a 1929 interview with George Sylvester Viereck, published in The Saturday Evening Post #life #love #art #coffee #quotes #AlbertEinstein

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” --Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Chapter 2 of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) Spoken by Alice, talking to herself #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #LewisCarroll

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --Misattributed to Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) There is no source of him ever saying a quote like the above attributed to him.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” --Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2000) From “Mother Night” (1961) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #kurtvonnegut

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ―Misattributed to Albert Einstein (1879-1955) No source has found it in his writings, lectures, or documented interviews

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ―Paulo Coelho (1947- ) From 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩 (1988) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #PauloCoelho

“Anger most hurts the sender.” --Rajinder Singh (1946- ) From “Echoes of the Divine” (2011) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #RajinderSingh

“Saying ’We will destroy terrorism’ is about as meaningful as saying: ‘We shall annihilate mockery.’” --Terence Graham Parry Jones (1942-2020) From "Why grammar is the first casualty of war" in “The Daily Telegraph” (1 December 2001) #life #love #coffee #books #amwriting #quotes #terryjones

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ―Attributed to John Green (1977- ) Unverified, possibly from “The Fault in Our Stars” - Possibly a paraphrase #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #johngreen

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - 1891 (chapter 19 of the full-novel edition) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #oscarwilde

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a good spin down the road, without thought of anything but the ride you are taking.” --Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself." --Attributed to Golda Meir; source unverified, also frequently misattributed to Vladimir Lenin #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #GoldaMeir #VladimirLenin #misattributions

"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." —Attributed to Paula Coelho (1947- ) No known source exists #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #PauloCoelho #misattributions

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ―Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) A paraphrase of a line in “Time Enough for Love” (1973) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #RobertHeinlein

“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” ―Attributed to Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) This is an anecdote, not a quote, based on hearsay from many sources. #life #love #art #coffee #amwriting #quotes #ThomasEdison #misattributions

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” ―Misattributed to Groucho Marx (1890-1977) No Groucho Marx source can be found #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #grouchomarx #misattributions

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." —​Misattributed to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) According to walden.org, “The original source for this quotation, often attributed to Thoreau, has not been identified.” #life #coffee #amwriting #quotes #henrydavidthoreau #misattributions

“No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.” --Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) From “The Near East” (1968), p. 31 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #IsaacAsimov

“If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.” --Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) From The Second-Story Angel, published in “Black Mask,” 15 November 1923 #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #quotes #samueldashiellhammett

“I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.” --Gabriel José García Márquez (1927– 2014) From "The Paris Review," Issue 82 (Winter 1981) p. 336

“Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines of only twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten Arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.” --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007) From “Like Shaking Hands With God” (1999) #writerslift #authors #coffee #write #books #quotes #kurtvonnegut

"The boss inspires fear; The leader inspires enthusiasm." --Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947) As quoted by Elmer Wheeler, "Tested Sentences that Sell" (1937), citing B. C. Forbes #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #HarrySelfridge

“That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. But the smile." --John Robert Fowles (1926–2005) From "The Magus" (1965) Ch. 21 #life #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #johnrobertfowles

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.” --Attributed Rita Mae Brown (1944- ) Unverified - possibly from "Sudden Death" - 1983

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.” --Groucho Marx (1890-1977) From Groucho’s piece “King Leer” (used to promote the TV debut of “You Bet Your Life”) #life #love #art #coffee #diary #quotes #grouchomarx

“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” --Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) From “My Day” (23 February 1940) #writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write #quotes #EleanorRoosevelt

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the ‘One and Only’ to anyone.” --Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank (1929–1945) From The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944) 29 December 1943, Washington Square Press, English Ed.

“To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.” --Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) From "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962) And “Beyond Left & Right: Radical Thought for Our Times” (ed. Richard Kostelanetz, 1968, p. 368)

“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!” --John Wesley (1703–1791) In a letter to Reverend Samuel Furley (25 January 1762) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #quotes #johnwesley

“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.” --Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) Wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt From "My Day" (5 November 1958) #writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ―Misattributed to Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) The quote first appeared in 1914 in "The Syracuse Herald" newspaper #writerslift #life #books #amwriting #quotes #misattributed #abrahamlincoln #FrankCrane

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) No verifiable source exists #writerslift #life #authors #books #amwriting #quotes #misattributed #ralphwaldoemerson #eecummings

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." --Misattributed to Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) No verifiable source can be found Possibly a paraphrase of something he said #writerslift #life #authors #write #books #quotes #josephcampbell #misattributed

"Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind." --Misattributed to V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) No verifiable source can be found #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #vspritchett #misattributed

"Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." --Neil Gaiman (1960- ) From Tumblr, August 21, 2012 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #NeilGaiman

"L’histoire est un roman dont le peuple est l’auteur. History is a novel of which the people is the author.” --Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) From “Cinq-Mars, ou Une conjuration sous Louis XIII” 3ᵉ édition (1827) Page 16

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” — E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) From his book “Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered” (1973)

"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author." --Misattributed to Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) No verifiable source can be found #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #Anonymous

"He used constantly to say that in our expenditure the item that costs most is time." --Diogenes (413-323 BC) The quote comes to us via Diogenes Laërtius, in his “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers" Book V chapter at §40.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." --Misattributed to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) No known source can be found #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #Anonymous