"If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn."

-- Thomas Merton

#Writing Quotes #Helping Others Quotes #Men Quotes

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.232, Hot Key Books
“Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.”
“The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.”
“A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.”
“How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.”

Source : David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.128, Random House
“When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?”

Source : "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.
“Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.”

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