"People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself."

-- John Gardner

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Might Quotes

“He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs”
“Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.”

Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books
“It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.”
“When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.”
“The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust â€” not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.”
“Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.”
“I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.”
“Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.”

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