"I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution."

--

Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Thinking Quotes #Littles Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.”
“To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
“I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”
“Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.â€ â€œYes it was.â€ Idris doesnâ€™t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.”
“I've known just thousands of people a hell of a lot more talented than me who never could get anywhere.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

You may also like:

A.S. King
Writer
Chris Raschka
Illustrator
Craig Silvey
Novelist
E. Lockhart
Writer
Jack Gantos
Author
Maggie Stiefvater
Writer
Paolo Bacigalupi
Writer
Ruta Sepetys
Writer
Thanhha Lai
Writer