Nazla Quotes & Sayings

Who knows how much of our stories are true? — Anne Lamott

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein

English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds were closed. They thudded to the floor. And yet, there was something magnificent about it. Profesora Shields explained that in English there was no usted, no tu. There was only one word - you. It applied to all people. No one more distant or more familiar. You. They. Me. I. Us. We. There were no words that changed from feminine to masculine and back again depending on the speaker. A person was from New York. Not a woman from New York, not a man from New York. Simply a person. — Cristina Henriquez

Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble. — Dean Koontz

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. — Charles De Lint

Be daring and determined. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record. — Beck

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience. — Ken Danby

In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting. — Charles Bukowski