"I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core."

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Steven Erikson

#Writing Quotes #Feels Quotes

“He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.”
“Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.”
“The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books
“Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.”
“Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?”
“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.”
“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”
“I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.”

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