"Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . ."

-- Edwidge Danticat

#Monday Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.3, Pantheon
“There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.”
“You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby
“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.”
“Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.”
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Source : "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.
“You punch like you take it up the ass.”

Source : "Raging Bull". www.imdb.com. 1980.
“Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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