"When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way."

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Source : Interview with David L. Ulin, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 6, 2011.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
“If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.”
“Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.”
“Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.”
“It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.”
“She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.”
“I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.”
“There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.”

Source : François Viète, T. Richard Witmer (2006). “The Analytic Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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