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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”
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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
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“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
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“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”
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“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
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“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”
Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”
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“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
