"The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced."

-- Robin McKinley

#Dream Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.”
“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
“I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, Look away! Ignore it, ignore the ***** in the room, move along, nothing to see here!”
“I want to kiss you.â€ Jaceâ€™s whisper pulled me from my thoughts and I glanced up to find his eyes blazing with raw need. â€œJust because Marc wonâ€™t touch you doesnâ€™t mean I shouldnâ€™t. Right? I donâ€™t have that kind of self-control, and honestly, I donâ€™t see the point in it. Are you supposed to be impressed by how long we can go without touching you? â€™Cause if thatâ€™s the game weâ€™re playing, I think Iâ€™d rather lose.”
“Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just like you, waiting your turn to go in and embarrass yourself, and then waiting around for feedback, which never comes. I really like that. For a young artist, it seems like the perfect thing to be doing, humiliation, over and over and over and over. Which I'm sure can't be the way that some people look at it, but I thought that was so great. The point of it is if you make your own stuff you don't have to deal with other people's bullshit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.”
“I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries, and don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)”
“Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

You may also like: