"I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a banal thing to say, I wrote my book because I was writing my book. At first I didn't know I was writing it, and one of the amazing things that happened as I was putting sentences down on paper is that some of the things that are most sacred and important to me rose to the surface of the prose."

-- Ayana Mathis

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
“If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.”

Source : Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.107, Shambhala Publications
“I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.”

Source : "Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90" by Cineplex.com, August 25, 2014.
“Study first, play afterwards.”
“What great changes have not been ambitious?”
“The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.”
“They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.”
“I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics”

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