Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you’re alive.
Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
If you want a baby have a new one. Don’t baby the old one.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.