#bout

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. ↗

— Aaron Hill

#counts #courage #dwells #flocks #herd

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#aging #body #changing #however #i

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. ↗

— Sonia Braga

#bright #bring #characters #dark #dreams

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#around #honestly #i #i see #me

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about. ↗

— William Stafford

#already #know #many #need #talking

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#denying #fretting #lot #upbringing

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#always #felt #first #had #i