"I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to make a different manuscript work, and I thought I was just taking a break by writing some short stories. I'm not a very good short story writer - the amazing compression that is required for short stories doesn't come easily to me. But anyway, I thought I'd try to write some short stories. And a structure took shape - I stumbled upon it."

-- Ayana Mathis

#Stupid Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.”
“The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.”
“I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.”
“Writing is an incessant process of discovery.”

Source : "'What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World,' by Robert Hass". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.”
“We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care”

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