Shirazi Vard Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

Sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And the fact that he didn't love me back, that he knew I was a disgusting whore, that was all the better. He wouldn't get wrapped up in a fairytale that didn't have any hope of coming true. — Pepper Winters

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars. — Lisa Kleypas

Others are ahead of me. I am continually challenged. My focus is forward. The atmosphere is affirming. I am often out of my comfort zone. I wake up excited. Failure is not my enemy. Others are growing. People desire change. Growth is modeled and expected. — John C. Maxwell

But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse ... — Christopher Moore

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor. — Kate Klise

Why do we fight?" he asked.

"Because we were born. — Bernard Cornwell