As everyone who writes knows, writing definitely gives you a different perspective on life than most people and this is not necessarily a bad thing. As part of a weekly series of Writers' Quotations, here are a few quotations from different authors on life. Please feel free to share any of your favorite quotations on life in the comments section and if you would like to take a look at what writers have to say on writing, you can check this out.
Margaret Atwood: Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Douglas Adams: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Jonathan Franzen: I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
Margaret Atwood: Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Barry Lopez: We simply do not understand our place in the world and do not have the courage to admit it.
Tom Robbins: Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins: It is never to late to have a happy childhood.
Jane Austen: I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Ernest Hemingway: As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
John Steinbeck: It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest): There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free."
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
Virginia Woolf: No one has ever felt passionately about towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one; moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London for tea and dinner.
Mark Twain: I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
Oscar Wilde: Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Samuel Beckett: Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.
Vladmir Nabakov: There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Hunter S. Thompson: I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
Dave Barry: You can only be young once, but you can always be immature.
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