Assignments – Quotes

The people who inspire

The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love. Gabrielle Bernstein

I think it’s a

I think it’s a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I think you need a balance of both. I think right now we’re just so in the extremes and people are just conditioned and given these gender assignments very early on. Evan Rachel Wood

After I have photographed

After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day, marvelous and exhausted and wanting to collapse on the floor in a heap. That’s why I can’t photograph just anybody, and why it’s so hard to photograph people on assignment; it’s like going … Read more

Making reality real is

Making reality real is art’s responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, … Read more

To some extent the

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don’t care about them at all. Emily Gould

But as we are

But as we are looking toward our future, I’m not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about … Read more

I think when you

I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It’s not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, \”I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I’m going to give you this assignment.\” You have to create it yourself or it’s never going to … Read more