"The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Writing Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking to a clean narrative arc gives me some troubles. I've been told that I'm digressive and I'd have to agree. The odd anecdote that in no way relates to the "big idea" is just as illuminating and fascinating to me as anything else pertaining to the through-line.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.”

Source : Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.36, tredition
“When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.”

Source : "Transforming Teresa" By Gail Sheehy, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2004.
“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”
“That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.”

Source : Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press
“I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.”
“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”
“I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.”

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