"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Freedom, Beauty, World, Boundaries

"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Freedom, Truth, Inspirational, Faith, Power

"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Freedom, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Happiness

"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Freedom, Inspirational, Power, Life

"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, Employment, Potential, Discovery

"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Freedom, Boundaries, Comfort

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Freedom, Religion, Law, Equality

"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Freedom, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

"I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon- is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Freedom, Defiance, Joy, Childhood

"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Freedom, Liberty, Risk, Morality

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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

Money, Time, Thought, Habit

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

Time, People, Melancholy, Serenity

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."

Time, Snow

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."

Family, Father, Law

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

Society, Class, College, Writer, Writing

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

Man, Men, Journey, Mind

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."

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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."

"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."

"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."

"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."

"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."

"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."

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"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."

"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."

"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."