“I shall find something worth pouring my all into. I wish I could paint and draw or play the trumpet.” Quote by Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I find writing frustrating. Words seem inadequate for all emotions. I do not have enough mastery of language to put my feelings to paper. Perhaps the author's duty is not to express his feelings but those of the story or novel.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't seem to get down to writing. There appears to be no urge. No coherent reason just now.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't put anything of value down on paper, only a list of dreary, staccato thoughts.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Am I whingeing, moaning about my life? It is a life of my choosing, God knows. Much I have learnt and how much more I must learn. When can I get down to some serious reading, something instinctive and beneficial?” LifeWisdomTruthBooksReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I cannot write before I have read more and learnt more from what I read.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I must read Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, Dostoevsky, Maupassant and Galsworthy. I must read Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce. I must listen to music, read more, and learn more about modern and ancient. I must read Kant, Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Sophocles — I must become a fountain of knowledge. I must go home soon.” LifeWisdomTruthLearningBooksReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“It’s funny how the mind wanders. Here I sit, in the Amazon Basin in the tropics, thinking about marriage and other crap. Someday, far in the distance, I shall read this and think of these days. One day, some good will come from these thoughts, maybe? Perhaps they will help someone else – for sure as hell, they don’t seem to do me much bloody good.” LifeWisdomTruthMarriageReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“It's too much of a pedestal, love.” LoveLifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Don't worry there’s an end game.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“After nearly three years on the 'move', being on the run, he feels that unreasonable temper, that jealousy, that self-conceit, that lack of confidence, that stutter, that fear, that hanging back, that hiding one's head in the sand, that bending to society, to impress others when it's not necessary, malaise when he can face them. Difficulties to me, the high pressure, the tension, the nakedness of the world, the empty, emotionless fear we live in. Yes, the harshness of it.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick