"I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people."

-- Michael Chabon

#Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.”

Source : "A weapon for liberation, and oppression" by Tim Skellett, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.
“It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.”
“Every time I see a guy walk out of an over-the-top sports car, I think they need a cold shower.”
“In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.”

Source : "Evangelicals". Interview with Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2006.
“The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.”
“There's no human remedy for sin.”

Source : Henry R. Brandt, Kerry L. Skinner (1995). “The Word for the Wise: Making Scripture the Heart of Your Counseling Ministry”, B & H Publishing Group
“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.”

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