"Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant."

-- Chuck Wendig

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
“My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.”

Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.
“Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.”
“Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?”

Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.151, Schwartz & Wade
“The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.”
“I didnâ€™t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
“Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.”
“There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.”

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