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“Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.”
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“I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.”
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“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
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“In antihistory, time is an illusion.”
Source : Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.8, Princeton University Press
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“Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?”
Source : Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books
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“In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.”
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“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
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“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.”
