"Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life."

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Source : William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

William Styron

#Writing Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.16, University of Georgia Press
“Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!”

Source : "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.
“The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.”
“With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]”
“There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying to do their best. But the standards in some cases end up reinforcing violence and destruction thousands of miles away.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”

Source : "Sword Point". Book by Harold Coyle, p. 141, 1988.
“It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.”
“The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.”

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