The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
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To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?