"For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day."

-- Dan Chaon

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.”
“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”
“Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?”
“Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.”
“I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.”
“I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.”
“I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.”

Source : "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad". Lebanese Forces.com, July 26, 2005.
“Life is an occasion...rise to it.”

You may also like:

Antonya Nelson
Author
Benjamin Percy
Writer
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Novelist
Charles Baxter
Author
Claire Vaye Watkins
Author
Lynda Barry
Cartoonist
Steve Almond
Writer
Stuart Dybek
Writer
Wells Tower
Writer