Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I love singing just for my own benefit.

I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

Joy is the highest expression of love.

A blind man can see how much I love you

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and I want to tell it the most effective way I can. That's really what I struggle with. And the thought of who may be reading it may be there somewhere in the back of my mind - I'll never say it's not there because I don't know - but it's not really what I'm thinking about.

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.