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Steven Erikson
“Mael once said there was no answer. For any of this. He said it was the way of things and always would be, and the only redemption that could be found was that all power, no matter how vast, how centralized, no matter how dominant, will destroy itself in the end. What entertained then was witnessing all those expressions of surprise on the faces of the wielders.”
Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

Oliver Burkeman
“the world has an effectively infinite number of experiences to offer, so getting a handful of them under your belt brings you no closer to a sense of having feasted on life’s possibilities.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Edward Slingerland
“Our excessive focus in the modern world on the power of conscious thought and the benefits of willpower and self-control causes us to overlook the pervasive importance of what might be called “body thinking”: tacit, fast, and semiautomatic behavior that flows from the unconscious with little or no conscious interference. The result is that we too often devote ourselves to pushing harder or moving faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends far beyond sports or artistic performance.”
Edward Slingerland, Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity

Nnedi Okorafor
“Sometimes the burn is quiet, gradual, unassuming, private. I learned what a short story was in that class. I learned that a story had a beginning, a middle, and an end. That there was voice, point of view, tense, and style. All these things I’d known from consuming novels for a decade and a half, but not on a conscious level.”
Nnedi Okorafor, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

William Kenower
“But as writers, much of the pleasure of writing is finding our balance. Once we have found our confidence in one type of story, it is not unusual to cast our creative eye toward stories we have never told before and for which we have yet to receive evidence that there are readers as interested in those stories as we are. And so the wobble returns. I know so many writers who have written so many books, and nearly all of them seek a fresh discovery of their confidence with each new story they tell. Sit these authors down privately, and they will share their insecurities with you. Yet it is only a game, really, one that is more interesting when it’s challenging. The insecurity, the wobble, merely reminds us of how interesting it is to find what we know already exists. Discovery never gets dull.”
William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

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