"I write because I canâ€™t sleep."

-- Ben Mezrich

#Writing Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Because I Can Quotes

“I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.”
“Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.”

Source : Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway
“I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.”
“That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.”
“I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.”
“Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.”
“People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.”
“Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.”

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