"I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.207, Broadway Books
“Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.145, Penguin
“I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.”
“In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.”
“If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.”
“Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.”
“Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.”
“I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion”

Source : Francis Kingdon Ward, John Duncan Vaughan Campbell Cawdor (5th Earl of) (1926). “The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges”

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