"I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Character Quotes #Night Quotes #Together Quotes

“I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.”

Source : "What price freedom of expression now?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.
“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.”
“Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.”
“It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?”
“Itâ€™s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.”
“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source : Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.”

Source : "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
“If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me”

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