I think that's what turns young men and women into writers…

To achieve lasting happiness, discover what you were born for and pursue your true mission.

— Senoraroy

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making…

— Robert Breault

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help…

— Robert Breault

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

— Shonda Rhimes

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute.…

— Lorrie Moore

My name is Nwori Joshua and I am the world's most sorrowful young man on earth and the world's biggest Jerk. I sought for…

— Nwori Joshua

“First came bright Spirits, not the Spirits of men, who danced and scattered flowers. Then, on the left and right, at each side of…

— C.S. Lewis

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath'…

— Bill Ward

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to…

— Andre Dubus

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely…

— Steven Pinker

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

— Paul Gauguin

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without…

— Hesketh Pearson

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous