"You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Identity Quotes #Fiction Quotes #World Quotes

“The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.”
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”
“Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.”
“Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.”

Source : Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.206, Penguin
“You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.”
“[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.”
“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.”
“This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.”

Source : twitter.com. August 1, 2011.

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