"ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills."

-- Nick Harkaway

#Block Quotes #Writing Quotes #Skills Quotes

“We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.”
“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”
“Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.”
“This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.”
“Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.”
“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”
“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.379, Macmillan
“I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!”

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