“You can’t be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?” ~ Madeleine, Quills
“The first draft of everything is always shit.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
“Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living…. Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.” ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
“Some things belong on paper, others in life. It’s a blessed fool who can’t tell the difference.” ~ Madeleine, Quills
“The best thing about fiction is making what would otherwise be restricted by reality come to life.” ~ Me
“Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me.
Wendy: Of course, I did nothing…
Peter: You did a little.” ~ Memorable quote form Peter Pan
“I don’t mean to upset people, but I must speak my mind. For what’s in my mind is far more interesting than whats outside my mind.” ~ Rochester, Libertine
“J.M. Barrie: She went to Neverland and you can visit her any time you like if you just go there yourself.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: How?
J.M. Barrie: By believing, Peter. Just believe.” ~ memorable quote from Finding Neverland
“Hook: And now, Peter Pan, you shall die.
Peter: To die would be an awfully big adventure.” ~ Memorable quote from Peter Pan
“The Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won’t live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.” ~ Herger the Joyous, The Thirteenth Warrior
“The only thing that matters is the ending. It’s the most important part of the story. And this one, is very good. This one is perfect.” ~Mort, Secret Window
“Wendy: My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts about my adventures.
Aunt Millicent: What adventures?
Wendy: I’ve yet to have them, but they will be perfectly thrilling.” ~ memorable quote from Peter Pan
“Peter Llewelyn Davies: I still have no idea what to write.
J.M. Barrie: Write about anything. Write about your family, write about the talking whale!
Peter Llewelyn Davies: What whale?
J.M. Barrie: The one that’s trapped in your imagination and desperate to get out.” ~ memorable quote from Finding Neverland
…laughing with truth of how the art of happiness is so simple…
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It is interesting, how the ingenuity of the story “Peter Pan” still remains accompanied by that of “Alice in Wonderland.” Don’t you think Peter has flown up and away high enough so as to leave Alice a very long way behind?