"American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand."

-- John Gimlette

#Writing Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Demand Quotes

“One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.”

Source : "New Again: Salt-N-Pepa". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini and Mary Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2014.
“The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.”
“Let your opponent show you how to defeat him”
“[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.133, Bantam
“Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.”
“I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.”
“But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.”
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”

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