"Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table."

-- Natalie Goldberg

#Writing Quotes #Uptight Quotes #Tables Quotes

“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

Source : Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books
“When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're so good, and so when someone can present it in a way that is inviting people into their joy, that's when the most beautiful things are formed.”
“Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.”
“I donâ€™t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. Itâ€™s become very franchise driven and superhero driven.”
“My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.”
“It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.”
“Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in the dark and answer to My life, this shirt I want to take off, which is on fire . . .”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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