"When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words."

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Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.54, Penguin

Sophy Burnham

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“All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.”
“Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.”
“Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.”

Source : "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.
“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”
“If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.”
“I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.”
“In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.”

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