Dan Becker

“Endings are where you remember what you actually have. When you come to the end of a story, when you accept that the story did for you what it could, when you let it find its proper conclusion, you often experience a short period of something that feels like sadness. Except it isn’t sadness. In the noisy hurly-burly of your nonwriting life, you’ve mistaken the natural quietness at a story’s end for sadness.”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“Yet even once I left that job and lived for a while without the need for that work, I did not feel free—at least not all the time. So I began looking at those moments I did feel free. I felt free while I was writing;”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“Mael once said there was no answer. For any of this. He said it was the way of things and always would be, and the only redemption that could be found was that all power, no matter how vast, how centralized, no matter how dominant, will destroy itself in the end. What entertained then was witnessing all those expressions of surprise on the faces of the wielders.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“the world has an effectively infinite number of experiences to offer, so getting a handful of them under your belt brings you no closer to a sense of having feasted on life’s possibilities.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals