Takayanagi Masako Quotes & Sayings

So what will happen now?" / "Same thing as happens every other time you've come here," said the old woman. "You go home." / "I don't know where that is anymore," I told them. / "You always say that," said Ginnie. — Neil Gaiman

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. — Alice Munro

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently. — Ricky Van Veen

Once upon a Lammas Night
When corn rigs are bonny,
Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
I held awhile to Annie ...
The time went by with careless heed
Between the late and early,
With small persuasion she agreed
To see me through the barley ...
Corn rigs and barley rigs,
Corn rigs are bonny!
I'll not forget that happy night
Among the rigs with Annie! — Robert Burns

It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new. — Seth

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative
the building blocks of success throughout our society. — Milton Friedman

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did. — Alex Haley

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. — Maggie Stiefvater

You will never go home, cancerous little polyp! — A.G. Howard

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. — Dan Chaon

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel. — K.P. Yohannan