"I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity."

-- Ayana Mathis

#Writing Quotes #Identity Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.”
“The test of love is in how we live.”
“It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.”
“My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”

Source : L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.93, Penguin UK
“Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.”
“The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.”
“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”

Source : "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

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