Here are some good short quotes: "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." - Andy Rooney "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." - William Wordsworth "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." - Toni Morrison "The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land." - Ralph Waldo Emerson These quotes convey powerful messages and inspire creativity, growth, and self-expression.