If you are writing a story, miracles or abnormal events may be bad art, or they may not. If, for example, you are writing an ordinary realistic novel and have got your characters into a hopeless muddle, it would be quite intolerable if you suddenly c...
Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by our lives. We all can agree, no one comes out equal. For a country to govern by socialism will fail as there will always be the ...
You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters. Don’t ever let the other stuff get ...
This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Sha...
they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mistake the means for the thing itself and while they fanc...
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely ...
Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels.
Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.
He who never begins will never end.
Love begins with song and music and ends in a sea of tears.
The river's reputation ends where the sea begins.
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Marriages are all happy. It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
All readers have reading in common.
My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.
In the end, the world returns to a grain.
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.
