"There are other people who have it a lot worse"

--

Stephen Chbosky

“Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'”
“I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best”
“In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.”
“The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.”
“I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.”
“Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.”
“No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.”
“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.”

Source : Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf

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