"Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind."

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Source : "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

Meg Rosoff

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Self Quotes

“Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.”
“.....before we can change the world we need to change our minds.”

Source : Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.71, Taylor Trade Publishing
“The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.”
“But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?”
“Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.”

Source : Quoted in Isaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, Charles Frohman: Manager and Man (1916)
“The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.”
“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.”
“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!”

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