"Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case."

-- Jim Crace

#Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations”

Source : Song: A Dream Like Mine
“Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.”
“The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.”
“Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom.”
“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
“Shrews are made, not born.”

Source : Margaret Millar (1952). “Rose's last summer”, New York
“I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.”
“Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.”

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