"Writing is a supernatural thing."

-- Silas House

#Writing Quotes

“The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.”

Source : "Egypt's new Coptic Christian pope speaks out against Islamic tone in draft constitution", www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2012.
“I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.”

Source : "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.
“I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.”
“I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.”
“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”
“I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important it is to allow the body, mind and spirit to fully cycle through each. My current season of marathon training is my favorite. I love the simple life of training and going after a goal with everything I have.”
“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”

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