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“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”
Source : Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.31, SCB Distributors
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“Sit loosely in the saddle.”
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
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“A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.”
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“People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.”
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“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”
Source : "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.
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“This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.”
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“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”
Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
