“ Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding. Erin Meyer
“ Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough. Karl Ove Knausgård
“ It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement. Sara Baume
“ I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What w… Terry Gross
“ No person is more ruthlessly cheated than someone strip-mined of his or her ability to recall the vibrancy of the past. After all, what would any person be if robbed of all sense of long-term memory?… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out. Erri De Luca
“ But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything t… Robertson Davies
“ Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same ol… Scott Lynch
“ So young and so lethargic! As though he had been born to sit and stare like this. Ever since Kiyoaki had confided in him, Shigekuni, who would have been bright and confident, as befitted such an able… Yukio Mishima
“ Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood. Sam Owen
“ But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. Junot Diaz
“ Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question. Rainer Maria Rilke
“ Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun. Toba Beta
“ In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--tha… Ethan Canin
