94 Quotes by David Amerland

When you work on a book and you have planned everything out and you are putting flesh to an idea and a surmise that before was mainly bones something funny happens. Your brain goes into an altered state where the words you write are not quite the words you want but rather the words dictated by the task at hand.

It’s no secret that I use the Goodreads blog to talk about writing which makes this space a lab, of sorts, and myself the subject.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another. It may require some kind of hard coding in between. But it is in the accuracy of the decoding that the true ability of the encoder is measured.

Every book is a journey. It’s a conjunction of influences, ideas and knowledge.

The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

Happiness like creativity is not diminished if you share it. It is affected by external factors but it also depends on them. Each of us is responsible for our own happiness but we are also co-responsible for the happiness those around us.

Hope is something that is built from small parts. Perceived actions. Observed effects. Imperfect understanding. Uncertain knowledge. Acknowledged fears. The things each of us projects and says and does in the physical world. Hope then is made up of tiny bits and pieces of us. All of us, together.