Brenda Peterson Quotes

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

Brenda Peterson

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• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Political
  • Courage
  • Write

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Road
  • Write

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
  • Man

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Write
  • Hero

• We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Sing

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Good
  • Art
  • Write

• Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Pain
  • Moments

• Going through the pain barrier, that's what makes the muscles grow. There's this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That's what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to go through the pain barrier.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Pain
  • Champion

• World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pain

• For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Model

• I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • People
  • Listening
  • Connect

• If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Pain
  • Write
  • Sing