"Maybe you could be a great writer..." - Quote by Barack Obama
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.
More by Barack Obama
“I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.”
“A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.”
“What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.”
More on Potential
“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
More on Writing
“I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.”
“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.”
“Most of my short stories are fantasy.”