"I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher
“Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].”
“I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.”
“I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.”
“Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.”
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

Source : Herodotus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics
“... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.”

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