"Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live."

-- Darren Shan

#Mean Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.”
“El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.”
“Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.”

Source : " Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.”
“Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.”
“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”
“Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.”
“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Source : John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge

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