"The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping."

--

Stewart O'Nan

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Stopping Quotes

“Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.”
“Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.”
“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.”
“Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.”
“Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.”
“Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.”
“Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1986). “Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching”, Oxford University Press, USA
“There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.”

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