“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.” WritingTryingKindDoeI CanReasonValuesInterestNaturalMy OwnFictionDramaWeaknessMediumsEndowmentSlenderConfessingNatural Phenomena Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindI CanDifferences Book:Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador Source: Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.” GivingKindI CanPlayKidsGamesBasketballBaseballBallsGive MeBounce Author:Terry Bradshaw
“I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.” PeopleKindLongI CanSeeingScaredPsychicsInvisibility Author:Larry Niven
“There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.” ThinkingWayKindArtI CanHappensGivenSingingAccessInventionPathwaysMotheringSpooky Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.” ThinkingHeartKindI CanStoriesInterestingFictionMinesBrokenGoes OnEndureWorthyLove StoryMemoirDestroyedInteresting ThingsPersonal Stories Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.” KindStillsI CanSpiritualReligiousCompassionTeachOnenessEnlighteningSpiritual Experience Author:Larry Hagman
“global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.” ThinkingYearsKindHas BeensI CanLastsRememberHouseDegreesSummerHotWeatherHeatGlobal WarmingLast YearUnbearableAnother Time Author:Mike Shinoda
“I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.” ThinkingKindI CanGuyStuffInterestingExpectationsEuropeAmerican Guys Author:Beck