"For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option. I might publish this, I might not. I think if I had to publish it, I might panic."

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Daniel Kehlmann

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.”

Source : Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”
“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

Source : "Yo-Yo Boing!". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1998.
“I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.”
“Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.”
“Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.”
“London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.”
“A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.”
“Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”

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