"I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift."

-- Regina Spektor

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Tools Quotes

“We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.”
“When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.”
“Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.”
“What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.7, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“A sure thing is no fun.”
“I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.”
“All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

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