"When I began to read, I began to exist"

-- Walter Dean Myers

“If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.”
“The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.”
“I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.”
“One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist”
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”

Source : Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”
“with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.”
“Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”

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