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“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan
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“The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.”
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“When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.”
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“Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“We will never, never sell our freedom for capital or technical aid. We stand for freedom at any cost.”
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“It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.”
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“Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.”
Source : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.
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“I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's a big difference - people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.”
