"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

-- Milan Kundera

#Writing Quotes

“I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.”
“Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.”
“I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.”
“I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.”
“There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.”
“I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.”
“It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.”
“what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.31, Random House

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