31 quotes found
“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”
“I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.”
“As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.”
“The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.”
“You can inform the people you love of what you want for them but you cannot transform them into living it out.”
“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.”
“Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)”
“My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.”
“How many nights must it takeone such as me to learnthat we arent, after all, madefrom that bird that flies out of its ashes,that for usas we go up in flames, our one workisto open ourselves, to bet...”
“There are womens voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change. I believe that all these legends about people changing into animals at night like the stories o...”
“The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Mac...”
“Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”
“For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearran...”
“The writing in itself is transformative for me.”
“The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.”
“It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.”
“Transformation is something that obsesses me. What is the soul? Is there a difference between something like a soul and something like a self? Is our identity something we construct, or is it organ...”
“To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challenge of being human in an open-ended and experimental manner. Although America is a romantic projec...”
