Naing Lin

“The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Raise your words, not your voice, it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Jalal al-Din Rumi

“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”
― Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

“When the officer asked what he’d taken, Sunny blurted out in his accented English, “He stole property in his mind.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup