"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."

-- Norman MacCaig

#Mimicry Quotes #Invention Quotes #Said Quotes

“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.”
“You can't help the poor by being one of them.”
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”

Source : Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”
“You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it a lot. Have fun with it. Begin now.”

Source : Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.9, Writer's Digest Books
“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin
“Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.”

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