"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."

-- Robert Morgan

#Special Quotes #Details Quotes #Way Quotes

“I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”
“You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "This is important. I owe something to my ten year old self right now. I need to respect that." I need for that kid who is obsessively reading comic books, I need there to be something rewarding for him where he's like, I didn't waste my time. I know what this is.”
“This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.”

Source : Jim Blinn (1998). “Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels”, p.94, Morgan Kaufmann
“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”
“A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.”
“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”

Source : Joan D. Vinge (2007). “Psion”, p.302, Macmillan
“Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.”

Source : Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.233, SUNY Press
“The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.”

Source : "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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