Chandler Burr Quotes

#1. Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. The persecuting spirit has its origin ... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

John Fiske

#3. The single most efficient change you can make isn't actually upping your daily word count, but eliminating the days where you are not writing.

Rachel Aaron

#4. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

#5. They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Oscar Wilde

#6. They exit one by one, or sometimes two by two. You scatter pieces of them on the snow in the woods and then run away as fast as you can, and then you turn and run back towards them, once they're beyond your reach.

Chandler Burr

#7. Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

Jenny Lawson

#8. Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

Anais Nin

#9. Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)

Chandler Burr

#10. Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Chandler Burr

#11. A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.

Chandler Burr