"I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on."

-- Said Sayrafiezadeh

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Political Quotes

“These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story,”
“So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.”
“I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.”
“Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.”
“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual.”

Source : Alan Keightley (1986). “Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East”, Wisdom Publications
“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.190

You may also like:

Amy Shearn
Author
Dalia Sofer
Writer
Darin Strauss
Writer
David Sheff
Author
Mark Haskell Smith
Writer
Peter Camejo
Author
Philipp Meyer
Fiction writer
Jane Alison
Lauren Grodstein
Novelist