There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.

unknown

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

Temple Grandin

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

Philip José Farmer

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Sue Monk Kidd

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

You can make anything by writing.

C. S. Lewis

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

Jeanette Winterson

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The Other is as if everthing is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

A smart person will learn from his mistakes; a genius will learn from other people's mistakes

unknown

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.

Pope Francis

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

Kurt Gödel

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.

Anu Garg

There's no such thing as "Artificial Intelligence". Not a single one of all so-called AI-machines can think, or understand. Not one.

Stevenvh

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Mignon McLaughlin

How did we go — in a relatively short amount of time — from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.

Laura Benanti