"To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth."

-- Milan Kundera

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.”

Source : "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.
“Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.”
“I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.”
“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.51, Crimeline
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.”
“At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.”

Source : John McNally (2010). “The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist”, p.75, University of Iowa Press
“People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.”
“You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.”

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