"Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Real Quotes #Fiction Quotes #World Quotes

“The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.”
“Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.”

Source : Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”

Source : "Attributed to Oliver Herford in "Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms" (p. 187)". 1955.
“I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.”
“Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned.”
“I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.”
“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”
“Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear...”

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