Abiertos A La Quotes & Sayings

You're about to be what you were always going to be. Be you then. — E.T. McAllen

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel. — Holly Black

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. — Camille Paglia

And that smile . . . Sweetheart, I want to be the only male on the receiving end of that beauty. — Melynda Price

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it. — Ivan Eyre

The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there. — Terence McKenna

I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country. — Elle Lothlorien

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous. — John Lyly

them. In earlier years, I liked my father in some ways. He was social, chatty, witty; people enjoyed being with him and he paid special attention to me. He indulged me. He sometimes gave me rarities I longed for, or some version of them, like a garter snake, instead of a poisonous one. In later years, he seemed to be as aware of me as the stray cat that wandered in one day and never left. Mother had two moods. She was either temperamental, meaning short-tempered and unhappy, or she was melancholy, meaning listless and unhappy. — Amy Tan

He who is able to lift heavy weights is strong;
he who is able to carry heavy burdens is great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read? ... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants. — Stan Lee