"It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes #Nervous Quotes

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

Source : "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.
“Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.”
“This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.”

Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.
“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”
“Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.”
“The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.”
“There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.”
“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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