"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel â€“ a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

Source : Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.
“Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.”
“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”
“Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.”
“I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.”
“I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.”
“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”

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