"I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#School Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”
“The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”
“I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.”
“The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter Godâ€™s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.”

Source : Corrie ten Boom (2008). “I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place”, p.63, Zondervan
“Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.”
“While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”

Source : Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013.
“When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.”
“Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.”

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