"There is the music of Heaven in all things."

-- Hildegard of Bingen

“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”
“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”
“I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."”

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“I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.”
“All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.”
“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.”
“Circumstances are the seeds of literature.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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