"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."

-- Jack Vance

#Writing Quotes

“Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning”
“Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.”
“Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace”
“You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.”
“When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

Source : Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press
“A free man chooses, a slave obeys”
“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”
“I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me...I am afraid of everything”

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