"I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Brad Paisley

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!”
“I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.”
“There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily.”
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.”
“Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.”
“The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”

Source : "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)

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