Might Quotes
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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
Ethel Waters
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He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone.
Courtney Milan
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I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.
Erika Slezak
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We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.
Katherine Catmull
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It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
Dennis Green
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Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.
Nalini Singh
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As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
Bill Courtney
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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
Sara Zarr
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I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
Rupert Friend
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
Hilary Mantel
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Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.
Emily Yoffe
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
Seth Godin
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Never give up, no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up.
Cat Power
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Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
Gary Panter
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One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
C. S. Lewis
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These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.
David Daniels
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America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
