Connection-to-others Quote by Elizabeth Buchan

“It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do…

— Michael Wolff

“Reason, it seems to me, is useless in these matters, becomes either an apologist for faith or its persecutor. Catch me tomorrow; I may…

— Chris Chester

“What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?”

— Madeleine Thien

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”

— Raymond Hull

“GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.”

— Lynn Hunt

“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well,…

— Anne Lamott

“It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.”

— Emily Brontë

“I won’t have to deal with the smashing, the smushing, the ramming and the cramming, the arguments and the impudence.”

— Corey Taylor

“Without the mess, who treasure the mercy of the Maker?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita