"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."

-- Tobias Wolff

#Time Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.”
“We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lordâ€™s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.”
“Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.”
“The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.”
“Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all”

Source : Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.
“The reason I love comics is that they DON'T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.”

Source : Source: theculturalgutter.com
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”

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