"I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people."

-- Simon Winchester

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.”

Source : "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.
“Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”
“Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.”
“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
“An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.”
“I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.”
“I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.”

Source : Susan Powter (1994). “The Pocket Powter: Questions and Answers to Help You Change the Way You Look and Feel Forever”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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