"If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all."

-- Ayn Rand

#Stories Quotes

“The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?”
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”

Source : Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)
“It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.”
“I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.”
“I spoke in front of a huge gathering in Seattle, and someone got up and said, "I'm just so afraid." I said, "The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid."”
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
“Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.”

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