"Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #World Quotes

“Everybody starts out as strangers.”
“My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.”
“One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.”
“Only the insecure strive for security.”
“Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.”
“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr
“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”
“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”

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