Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 93
“The written word is holy…When we write our stories, it helps us bring understanding.”
Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer
On the importance of gaining knowledge in “Author Victor Villaseñor talks 'Crazy Loco'” https://www.lmtonline.com/que_pasa/article/Author-Victor-Villase-or-talks-Crazy-Loco-10268363.php in LMT Online (2008 Dec 11)
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer
Variant: To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?
Context: The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know. All these therapies, all these techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating the agony of man.
