"You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you."

-- Ralph Fletcher

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.”
“Donâ€™t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”
“My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.”
“If he goes down, he is to get up, and continue to fight, until I finish the process.”
“Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.”

Source : James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”
“From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.”
“Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.”
“Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.”

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