"My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's where it came from. I always come out of it thinking, Okay, that got it all outta me. The next one's gonna be nice and simple, and it's not gonna scare me, and that never seems to happen."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Nick Tosches

#Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.”

Source : "Trayvon Martin Case: ABC News Radio Conversation on Race and Justice" by Joshua Cohan, abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2012.
“In training horses, one trains himself”
“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.”
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”
“It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.”
“The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.”
“Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness”
“How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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