“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.” WayWritingMayLongSaidBookIdeasMomentsStoriesFeelingsBeliefVoiceDarkMy OwnSilenceWrittenWorstListeningOptimismSteadySpeculationLong WayFear Of FailureSpookyAnaloguePositive Feelings Book:Nightmares & Dreamscapes Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes
“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.” MenWantMomentsClassWrittenMiddleSonRevolutionElementsRedConservativeSocialismSupposed To BeRevolutionaryFlagsWorking ClassProletariatBourgeoisieUpper ClassWorking Man Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.” MomentsGamesSportsWrittenOkayIllnessRejectionPrisonerOvercoming Rejection Author:Lance Armstrong
“'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.” HumansMomentsAgeLyingFictionForeverWrittenSeaDividesTranquilityHuman HistoryBuzzArmstrongIntertwined Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.” ThinkingLifeSelfMomentsFeelingsLife IsLostMemoriesWrittenTrue LifeFeeling Lost Book:Point Omega Source: Point Omega
“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.” MomentsFeelingsLeftWrittenRiskCompositionUneasy Book:Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands Source: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
“I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.” ThinkingHumansRealMomentsCharacterFeltInterestingKnowingWrittenPerfectionComplicatedInsecure Author:Kristen Bell
“Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?” Has BeensBookMomentsLastsFailingWrittenPages Author:Mary Ritter Beard