"You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare"

-- Erica Jong

#Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Beginners Quotes

“The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.”
“Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."”
“God's solution is a prayer away!”
“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”
“Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.”
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.”

Source : Jim Dodge (2004). “Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler”, p.384, Canongate Books
“I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.”

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