Dylan O'Sullivan Quotes

Screens present you with images, but books force you to create them, and the power of that image-creating muscle is the control center of the creativity because the subconscious whispers in images, and if you let your powers of imagination waste away, you won't be able to hear it

Still hard to believe that access to infinite information made us dumber

How many dreams are abandoned for fear of looking stupid in the eyes of those who never think about us at all

You really have no idea what you actually think until you attempt to write it down

There's something about a soulless job that makes you crave mindless entertainment, and that's the combination that slowly kills you

You prefer to cling on to your potential as a pristine hypothetical, that's why you never let yourself try

Strange things happen to creativity at dusk and dawn, hence so many writers work in the early morning or late at night. The edges of the day are thin places, the conscious mind is not fully awake and the subconscious can bleed through, Arthur Koestler called it "the marshy shore"

Many never put pen to paper for fear of ruining the perfectly white page of their life, so they leave it blank

a death with no life behind it

It's not that nobody reads anymore, it's that nobody who reads is in charge

The starkest evidence of the decline of literacy is people's increasing inability to comprehend hypotheticals and analogies

Whatever energy you save in avoidance you spend in regret

A day without a walk is a mistake

Your education prepared you for a world that no longer exists

Life's too short to be nonchalant, become as chalant as you possibly can

The answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding