Top 33 Kirin Quotes
#1. That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.
Sigmund Freud
#2. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.
M. Kirin
#3. Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.
M. Kirin
#4. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.
M. Kirin
#5. Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.
Sit down, and write.
M. Kirin
#6. This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
Jane Jacobs
#7. You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book.
M. Kirin
#8. You think you have no 'talent'? Write anyway. lots of people with 'talent' don't actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have 'talent.
M. Kirin
#9. Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.
M. Kirin
#10. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. Still, he thought, it's an adult's body we got here, no question about that. There's the pot belly that comes with a few too many good steaks, a few too many bottles of Kirin beer, a few too many poolside lunches where you had the Reuben or the French dip instead of the diet plate.
Stephen King
#12. Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.
M. Kirin
#13. Do you think you're not 'ready' to start that big story idea/project you've been thinking about forever?
Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.
M. Kirin
#14. Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.
Garth Greenwell
#15. All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.
M. Kirin
#16. Description is the color in the canvas of your story.
M. Kirin
#17. I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.
Paul Strand
#18. I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
Philippa Gregory
#19. What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.
It has become a symbol now ... That is the way human beings deal with the world.
Lian Hearn
#20. All great writers share one thing in common:
They finished their books.
M. Kirin
#21. There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
M. Kirin
#22. TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
M. Kirin
#23. If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?
Now, write that book.
M. Kirin
#24. With Damien's back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination.
Rhys Ford
#25. You were meant to write this book.
M. Kirin
#26. Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
M. Kirin
#27. All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.
Arthur C. Clarke
#28. There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and ... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down.
Luke Wilson
#29. The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.
M. Kirin
#30. Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
M. Kirin
#31. Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
Heisenberg
#32. My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.
Kenny Loggins
#33. You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write.
M. Kirin
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