I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you… There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better—there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.
Neil Gaiman (via writingquotes)
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“I think that it’s wise to question anyone or anything who thinks that they have the answer. The ultimate sum of all natural laws are what comprise the concept of god. And I’d have to be much smarter than I am to describe it. The only way to enjoy it is to enjoy it and not to spend much time trying to deconstruct it. Ultimately, on the tombstones of many it should read: "Humans: fretted, worried, prayed, procreated, sacrificed, died anyway.”“
-Devin Townsend
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
If you were very, very stupid, How can you realize that you are very, very stupid? You’d have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you are.
There’s no story and no character that hasn’t been done before. There’s only your point of view to differentiate your work from everybody else’s.
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via skeletongarden)
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The prince fought valiantly.
He slayed the dragon.
The princess cried for days.
She loved that dragon.
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We need to learn more fully how to understand and respect the animals, with whom we share the world. And as civilization advances (if it does), one of our more important responsibilities must be to look after the animals. Certainly we should control them and surely we must make use of them, but we should do these things thoughtfully and we must learn not to abuse or waste the animals…Yet it would be no good tackling our task by being sentimental; an animal is an animal and not a sort of human being dressed up. Before we can act wisely we must appreciate the facts and see the animals as they really are.
Richard Adams (author of Watership Down) (via howtoskinatiger)
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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