Andrei Bula

“É isso que chamam de Amor — disse o rapaz, ao ver que o vento estava quase cedendo ao seu pedido. — Quando se ama é que se consegue ser qualquer coisa da Criação.”
― Paulo Coelho, O Alquimista

“— Isto um dia já foi mar — disse. — Já tinha reparado — respondeu o rapaz. O Alquimista pediu ao rapaz que colocasse a concha no ouvido. Ele tinha feito isso muitas vezes quando era criança e escutado o barulho do mar. — O mar continua dentro desta concha, porque é sua Lenda Pessoal. E jamais a abandonará, até que o deserto se cubra novamente de água.”
― Paulo Coelho, O Alquimista

“What most of the people I know do is they all sit and face the same direction and stare at the same thing and then structure commercial-length conversations around the sorts of questions that myopic car-crash witnesses might ask each other—“Did you just see what I just saw?” Plus, if we’re going to talk about the virtues of “realism,” the paucity of profound conversation in younger fiction seems accurately to reflect more than just our own generation—I mean six hours a day, in average households young and old, just how much conversation can really be going on? So now whose literary aesthetic seems “dated”?”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

“As opposed to words, which can be impersonal and rigid, a visualization is something we create, something that serves our particular needs of the moment and can represent an idea in a way that is more fluid and real than simply words. The use of images to make sense of the world is perhaps our most primitive form of intelligence, and can help us conjure up ideas that we can later verbalize. Words also are abstract; an image or model makes our idea suddenly more concrete, which satisfies our need to see and feel things with our senses.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery