"I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write."

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Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

Bei Dao

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. Weve always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.”

Source : "How I Write: Lisa Scottoline & Daughter Francesca Serritella". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. November 14, 2012.
“Perseverance is a great element of success.”
“The gun goes off. I fall.”
“I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.”
“I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.”

Source : "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 354, 1955.
“The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.”
“How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?”

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