"In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters."

-- Marisa Silver

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.”
“You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.”
“Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.”
“Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.”
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
“I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.”
“Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.”
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”

Source : May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.138, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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