"It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the homosexual agenda, comes at the expense of liberty, particularly religious liberty.”
“Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.”

Source : "'When you know, you know': Tamara Ecclestone gets engaged to boyfriend after ONE month of dating" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 25, 2013.
“Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.”

Source : R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.”
“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”

Source : Leon Uris (1970). “QB VII”
“I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.”

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