"Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin."

-- Tryon Edwards

#Blessing Quotes #Evil Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”
“I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.”
“I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.”
“Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.”

Source : "Innovation and change" by Dominic Basulo, bigthink.com.
“A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.”
“You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.”
“Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.”
“I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.”

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