"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

-- Manuel Puig

#Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.190, Transaction Publishers
“My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do”

Source : Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.
“At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.”
“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.”
“Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.”

Source : Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.209, Voyageur Press (MN)
“How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?”
“When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyoneâ€™s need. But not enough for everyoneâ€™s greed.”
“Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.”

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