"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"

-- Anne Lamott

#Asking Quotes #Alive Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”
“You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.”
“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.”

Source : "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.
“It's hard to determine where lies culpability.”
“The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.”
“The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.”
“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”
“When in doubt, throw it out.”

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