K.J. Mecklenfeld > K.J.'s Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Curiouser and curiouser.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“When we are no longer children we are already dead”
― Constantin Brancusi

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”
― Miles Davis

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day."

[Academy Award ceremony, March 2, 2014]”
― Robert De Niro

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Don't wait for a miracle. Make one happen.”
― K.J. Mecklenfeld, Cartea Miracolelor

“Nu avem timp să citim totul de-a fir a păr, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim titlurile tuturor cărților, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim prima literă din titlurile tuturor cărților. Haosul livresc e desăvîrșit și e definitiv.”
― Valeriu Gherghel, Breviarul sceptic. Și alte eseuri despre simplitate

“▼ În mijlocul verii ▼
▼ Când Pământul doarme ▼
▼ La ora bufniţei ▼
▼ Luna vorbeşte ▼”
― K.J. Mecklenfeld, Cartea Miracolelor

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams

Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them, give yourself time, you can come back and do it again in the light of what you discover about the story later on. It's better to have pages and pages of material to work through and often maybe find an unexpected shape in that you can then craft and put it for good use, rather than one manically reworked paragraph or sentence.
But writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it...!”
― Douglas Adams

“▼ In the middle of summer ▼
▼ When the earth sleeps ▼
▼ At the hour of the owl ▼
▼ The moon speaks ▼”
― K.J. Mecklenfeld, Cartea Miracolelor

“Peace is life, war is death. It’s as simple as that.”
― K.J. Mecklenfeld