Tauro Hoy Quotes

#1. Take imagination breaks ... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Nita Leland

#2. The mind is a sacred mansion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

Samuel Beckett

#4. Did you pick that out? I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.

Richelle Mead

#5. [The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#6. There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.

Sara Gruen

#7. He's also a dick,' said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile.

Charlie Higson

#8. Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.

Kevin Durant

#9. I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Questlove

#10. Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. He strolled to the front door and stood watching, letting the picture of Felicity grave itself so deeply on his mind that when with the passing of time it would seem to other people that she had grown old and lost her beauty it would not seem so to him.

Elizabeth Goudge