Nancy Lam quotes

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.
-- Nancy Lam

#Believe #Guilt #Literature

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.
-- Nancy Lam

#Running #Passion #Creativity

Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.
-- Nancy Lam

#Fall #Creating #Issues

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.