"I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things."

-- Carol Leifer

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Starting Quotes

“Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.”
“So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.”
“Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.”
“Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.”
“When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'”
“Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all”
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
“Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudesâ€”into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.170, New York Review of Books

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