"I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand."

--

E. L. Doctorow

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.”

Source : "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.
“The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.”
“If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.”
“I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.”
“The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists”
“You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.”
“Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.”
“Though the singer is silentâ€¦there is still the truth of the song.”

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