Braudel Sling Quotes & Sayings

The act of writing, when it goes well, gives me a pleasure, a joy, unlike any other. It takes me to another place - irrespective of my subject - where I am totally absorbed and oblivious to distracting thoughts, worries, preoccupations, or indeed the passage of time. In those rare, heavenly states of mind, I may write nonstop until I can no longer see the paper. Only then do I realize that evening has come and that I have been writing all day. Over a lifetime, I have written millions of words, but the act of writing seems as fresh, and as much fun, as when I started it nearly seventy years ago. — Oliver Sacks

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk. — Ellen Glasgow

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. — Flea

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. — Cassandra Clare

Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim. — Rainbow Rowell

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is,
With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased
With being nothing. — William Shakespeare

Life would go on as it had. All of it, in a kind of endless summer. — Stephen King

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice. — Don DeLillo

Find out what the customer wants and then make it better. — Frank Perdue

to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe. — Suanne Laqueur

Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think. — Jim Butcher