Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind…

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

Hey everyone:) I am 15 basically and I am from Tennessee. If you would like A friend, I would love to talk to you…

— Brooklyn Chance

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent…

— Henry Rollins

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to…

— Roy Harper

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of…

— Alexander Grothendieck

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

— Frederick Lenz

He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in…

— Katie MacAlister

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all…

— Michael Moorcock

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I…

— Jane Hirshfield

“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran…

— Brady Udall

If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

— Stanley Wolpert

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

— Kiran Rao

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found…

— Lucy Larcom