"What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink."

-- John Olsen

#Thinking Quotes #Joy Quotes #Ink Quotes

“I'm the luckiest writer on earth.”
“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
“The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.”
“I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.”
“For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”
“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

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