- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ignoring
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020