"No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.”
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because these things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalismâ€¦ We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastropheâ€“and would benefit the vast majorityâ€“are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.”
“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
“We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.”
“The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.”
“The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.”
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press
“There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.”

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