Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off. ”

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor. ”

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. ”

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that. ”

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. ”

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are. ”

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer. ”

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another. ”

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. ”

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. ”