“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
- Anton Chekhov
Love
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other"
- Anton Chekhov
Balance
"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity