"Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself."

-- Chad Harbach

#Notebook Quotes #Running Quotes #Block Quotes

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
“Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides”
“It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.170, Faber & Faber
“I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.”
“In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.”
“A child is fed with milk and praise.”

Source : Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1908). “Tales for children. Poetry for children. Poems. Dramatic works”
“I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.”
“In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.”

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