"I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by the kitchen window. When I swatted, a wild ferocious swing, a whole trembling crowd shot from the window like pebbles from a blunderbuss, then settled back. My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?"

-- Bonnie Friedman

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book for boys or for girls is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.”
“Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.”

Source : "Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Aaron Kampman on his faith, his recent trip to El Salvador and the NFL lockout". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
“Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.”
“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”
“There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.”

You may also like:

Dan Chaon
Writer
James N. Frey
Writer
Nancy Kress
Fiction writer
Noah Lukeman
Writer
Sol Stein
Author
William Strunk, Jr.
Professor
William Zinsser
Writer