Atiya Olas Spirit Quotes

#1. I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Alexander Kotov

#2. I moved forward in the trace of their footsteps as in a waking dream where the scent of a newly blown poppy is no longer a perfume but a blossoming: where the deep red of a maple leaf in autumn is no longer a colour but a grace; where a country is no longer a place but a lullaby.

Kim Thuy

#3. A good book written for children can be read by adults.

Norton Juster

#4. Spend some time alone every day.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Gary Shteyngart

#6. I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Wager