In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. - Richard Powers

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You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

Richard Powers

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

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What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Build, Equal, Mental, Sentences, States

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Book, Gas, Librarian, Occupation, Reading, Thought Provoking

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Act, Lasts, Prayer, Reading, Secular

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Roles, Taking, Way, World

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

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Stuart Wilde

If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc. , etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

Counting, Everything, Focus, Giving, People

Scott Pelley

Believe, Fighting, Hands, Polls, Saying, Take

Nicholas Sparks

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

Made, Nothing, Perfect, Same, Sense, Time

Fred Alan Wolf

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq. Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

Hebrews, Iraq, Magicians, Reality, Roots, World

Ivan Klíma

. . the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Degrees, Desire, Greatest, Know, Obsession