"We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Writing Quotes #Normal Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.”
“She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.”
“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

Source : Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”
“Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.”
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
“It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.”

Source : Wu Wei Wei (2003). “The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)”, p.1, Sentient Publications
“I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?”
“According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already (that) I might not have all the attributes that usually that the Church looks for when canonizing somebody because I'm supposed to be dead already.”

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