"There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel."

-- John Dos Passos

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK
“Nobody loves only once.”
“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment â€” the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. Itâ€™s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”
“The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.”
“A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.”
“To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you.”
“Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.”
“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

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