"Passion without focus can lead you astray."

-- Ken Auletta

#Passion Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.”
“First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.”
“It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.”
“When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.”
“The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.”
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
“Some of this bookâ€”perhaps too muchâ€”has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of itâ€”and perhaps the best of itâ€”is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”

Source : Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.”

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