Connected Quote by Elif Safak Download Open image “For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.” — Elif Safak ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Connected Feeling God Me Stories Universe Way Writing Writing stories
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
With 'The Forty Rules of Love,' I wanted to write a love story. But I wanted a love story with a spiritual dimension. For… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places. — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet. — Jim Gilliam Copy Share Image
“I realized that all things in life are connected and I could no longer go about life without looking within.” — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
