Transmigrating To The Ancient Quotes

#1. I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Sam Shepard

#2. I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Brian J. White

#3. If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

Thomas Lynch

#4. The view from the apartment's one window was of another building's gray ferroconcrete wall, which was intermittently lit by the white neon flicker from the Ringer Hut noodle shop sign across the street. As

Karl Taro Greenfeld

#5. Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

Diane Ackerman

#6. I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

Chelsea Cain

#7. Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. Don't regret your past ... It has shaped you. Don't fear your future ... It is yours to shape.

Louise Hansen

#11. Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Haruki Murakami

#12. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

Tom Barrett