"Write what will stop your breath if you donâ€™t write."

-- Grace Paley

#Writing Quotes

“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”
“In Kansas I have a chess school”
“The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have.”
“It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.”

Source : Jane Powell (2007). “Meditations for Women”, p.77, Jane Powell
“Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.”
“Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.”
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.356, Penguin
“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”

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