Author: Megan Filipowski

“Everything you are learning is preparing you for something else.” Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.” Hank Green

“What on Earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?” Anthony Trollope

“If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical.” Terry Brooks

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” Ernest Hemingway

“If we don’t risk it all, we may as well not write at all.” Anne Stuart

“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.” Kate Braverman

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important […]

“I arrived at college not knowing much, however. It wasn’t until my twenties that I became a serious reader. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, I read with a vicariousness unmatched in any other decade of my life. I was trying to become less stupid.” Jeffrey Eugenides