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“This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
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“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
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“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
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“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”
― The Silkworm
― The Silkworm
“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
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“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
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“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Alone in Paris
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Alone in Paris
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.”
― A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
― A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“I have voices in my head
I'm a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I experience what they experience
I live in their world
And I'm devoted to translating their stories
I'm not crazy, I'm a writer”
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I'm a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I experience what they experience
I live in their world
And I'm devoted to translating their stories
I'm not crazy, I'm a writer”
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“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”
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“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.”
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“Our lives are spent plopped on the gluteal upholstery for eight hours a day with only imaginary friends for company, spinning lies, marinating in envy, and wondering when the Pulitzer committee is going to twig to our brilliance.”
― Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird
― Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird
“That night, I dreamed of roads folding back into themselves. Of footsteps walking without bodies. Of towns that survived by pretending time was circular.”
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“The road remembers
every footstep I left behind—
some in haste,
some in love,
all in search of you. Asphalt cracks open
like old letters,
revealing dust and distance.
I keep walking.
The horizon keeps moving.
That is how we stay alive”
― A Handful of Shuilis
every footstep I left behind—
some in haste,
some in love,
all in search of you. Asphalt cracks open
like old letters,
revealing dust and distance.
I keep walking.
The horizon keeps moving.
That is how we stay alive”
― A Handful of Shuilis
“The train whistles at 2 a.m.
cutting through fields of sleeping rice.
I press my forehead to the glass—
villages blink, then vanish. Somewhere between stations,
I write your name
on the fogged window.
By dawn,
it is gone.
Like you.
Like me”
― A Handful of Shuilis
cutting through fields of sleeping rice.
I press my forehead to the glass—
villages blink, then vanish. Somewhere between stations,
I write your name
on the fogged window.
By dawn,
it is gone.
Like you.
Like me”
― A Handful of Shuilis
“There was a phase of my life when I would wake up and not know where I will be at the end of the day. I was alone and I kept on moving from place to place. Living alone in a different country, I felt uprooted and without any support. But somehow I managed to keep going, and I kept on going amidst strangers. Each day was a struggle. I felt like giving up and going back to my family. But Man is not made to accept defeat.”
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“There was a phase of my life when I would wake up and not know where I will be at the end of the day. I was alone and I kept on moving from place to place. Living alone in a different country, I felt uprooted and without any support. But somehow I managed to keep going, and I kept on going amidst strangers. Each day was a struggle. I felt like giving up and going back to my family. But Man is not made to accept defeat”
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“Your ideal reader is you—or someone a lot like you.”
― Fiction à la Carte: The Recipe for a Great Story
― Fiction à la Carte: The Recipe for a Great Story
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