Zagalillos Quotes & Sayings

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible. — Alberto Villoldo

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done. Accept that the world may never notice this thing you worked so hard at. And instead, do it for it, find a job, find a way of living that gives you an hour or two or three a day to do it, and then work your ass off sending out, trying to get out there, but do not put the pressure on the work to do something for you. Because then you're going to be writing dishonestly and for the market instead of for the characters and your story. — Andre Dubus III

For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance. — Dalai Lama

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. — Ben Affleck

You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults."
"You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go. — Sue Morter

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? — Margaret Atwood

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great. — Chantal Joffe