"I just write the books that I think I would want to read."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (1979). “The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I”, p.144, Nilgiri Press
“The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldnâ€™t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.”
“I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.”
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole ***** nation of ***** driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”
“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”
“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.”
“I don't shop by brand loyalty at all. I'm just drawn to what I like when I shop.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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