"Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thingâ€”very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers canâ€™t drive? A lot. Theyâ€™re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life."

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Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012

Ha Jin

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.”

Source : "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.
“I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.”
“In week one of the 'X Factor,' just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like girls who eat carrots. Ever since I've had lots and lots and lots of carrots.”
“Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.”
“The world needs a strong America.”
“A man without words is a man without thought.”
“No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.”
“when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.”

Source : Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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