A.A. Patawaran Quotes

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.

But the sun will rise the day after tomorrow
A millennium without us silences our last echo
To tiny fragments even our plastics are reduced
In Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed

I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths

The only reason you can't write is because you don't.

To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses

Our body does get old, but our spirit, never. If we write well enough, we might even live forever.

Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud.

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours.

I can't remember the poem
That pierced through my heart
It was the saddest I heard
Of all truths ever spoken
It left a scar in me
A wound that doesn't heal
But the words are forgotten
So is a big part of me

A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing, and the bees stinging.

Real is overrated
No way in my life is that the gist
I'd be everything I am not
If I were a fictionist

Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.

Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.