"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Writing Quotes #Fetus Quotes

“Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.”

Source : "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.”
“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”
“Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.”
“Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!”
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.”

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