"While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write."

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Source : "A Conversation with Daniel Mason, author of THE PIANO TUNER". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

Daniel Mason

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.”
“Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.”
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
“Breathe... Everything is happening exactly as it should be.”
“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”
“Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.”

Source : "Living in Cyn". Interview with Will Doig, www.metroweekly.com. August 14, 2002.
“Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.”
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.”

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