"If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease."

-- Scott Turow

#Writing Quotes #Passion Quotes #Simple Quotes

“We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.”
“If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.”
“I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.”
“It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love, it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so weak, so ill, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.”

Source : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 12), 1975.
“There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.”
“Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.”
“After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”
“To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.”

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