"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."

-- Herbert Read

#Literature Quotes #Natural Quotes #Authority Quotes

“As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.”
“Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.”
“My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever”
“The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.”
“Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.”
“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”
“The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.”

Source : "Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, 1990.
“There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a part-time registered nurse, a wife, and a mother when I began publishing. I'd taken no classes, had no experience, no knowledge of the publishing world, no agent, no contacts ... Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.”

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