Success lies in absorbing negative feedback and making the best use of it. - Osama Sarwar
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! - Edna Ferber
The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? - Donna Lynn Hope
I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis
saturated & silent… i stand beneath your blackest cloud, absorbing all i can of the pain you felt. - L V HALL
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. - Mark Twain