"You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting."

-- Peter Turchi

#Beautiful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Able Quotes

“Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013.”
“Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.”
“I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.”
“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
“Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.”
“The power of the rosary is beyond description.”
“There is a kind of mysticism to writing.”

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