"In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling."

-- Stephen King

#Sight Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.”
“I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.”
“In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.”
“I can be a champion and a public servant also.”
“Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
“Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.”
“As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.”

Source : Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin
“For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.”

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