"Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves."

-- Mohsin Hamid

“The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.”
“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.”
“I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell”
“The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.”
“If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I don't have any particular actors I want to use, I'd probably consider animation for that project. Which medium I use doesn't really make that much difference to me.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”

Source : Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.33, Zed Books
“Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.”

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