"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured."

-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Writing Quotes #Scene Quotes #Passing Quotes

“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next.”
“We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.”
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.”
“That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.”
“The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”
“Provocative and challengingÂ The Social LicenseÂ makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.”
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.3, Shambhala Publications
“I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.”

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