Daniel Stalter > Daniel's Quotes

“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”
― Charles Fort

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”
― Sierra DeMulder

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― pleasefindthis

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird