Insightful Quotes - Page 6

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

Where there is no vision a people perish.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.