...there was a certain comfort in surrender.
Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract.
“Isnt that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”
“...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.”
“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?”
“Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.”
“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”
“I remembered Patels words, Surrender is not giving up, it is worship. Show me how to step, I said, so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.”
“There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.”
“Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now ...”