"There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about being a writer."

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Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

Hanya Yanagihara

#Writing Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“If you really want to know, Iâ€™d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thingâ€™s done now, of course, and I canâ€™t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
“Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.”
“Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.”
“Partial repetitions is another technique that I used -- sparingly. I was always a fan of doing full repetitions on every set. However, at the very end of a set where you cannot do any more, and especially if you don't have a training partner, the partial repetitions are good for eking out a little bit more out of the exercise.”
“Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!”
“When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.”
“Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.”

Source : Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.”

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