Garth Stein Quotes

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• That which you manifest is before you.
• If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.
• I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels.…
• Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order…
• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good…
• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue…
• I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from…
• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's…
• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into…
• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a…
• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.…
• We are the creators of our own destiny,
• Yet for every peak there is a valley.
• That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our…
• Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.
• That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.
• I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are…
• The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably…

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