Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes “This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. And then the nightmares will begin
Life Inspirations 3919 164 160 618 1223 124 1130 443 1204 266 416 688 123 290 171 1012 111 126 1767 1806 134 3125 1424 1998 473 273 2152 538 1736 841 516 451 758 811 5021 2764 2246 3018 2375 Quotations: Writers on Writing | Writer's Remorse I absolutely love it when writers write (or talk about) writing. Depending on what stage a writer is in the writing process, the writer’s quotes range from the devoted, to the confused, to the alcohol-dependent, and to the ultimately creative. In this short list of some of my favorite writer’s quotations about writing, I tried to leave out the mundane quotes and instead tried to include some of the more flavorful quotations about writing and the writing process. Stephen King: I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.Ernest Hemingway: Write drunk, edit sober. Hunter S. Elmore Leonard: I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. Moliere: A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. William Faulkner: Writing is like prostitution. Robert Frost: Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. William S.
Albert Einstein on God « A Life of Wonder January 4, 2011 by quiverandquill Einstein was asked, “Do you believe in the God of Spinoza.” To which he replied: “I can’t answer with a simple yes or no. I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I call myself a pantheist. I love the beauty and simplicity of this–and especially the phrase–”a universe marvelously arranged,” how better to describe the sublime beauty beyond our understanding. Like this: Like Loading...
C.S. Lewis Quote Page Buy The Book by Nathan Jensen "The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..." --Mere Christianity "The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation." --The Weight of Glory "You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness." "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." "If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself." "When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch." "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism." "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."