Visakan Veerasamy Quotes

The most critical part of becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is to be “so prolific you don’t recognise yourself”. Once you cross that threshold you can actually look at your own work with a relatively objective, critical eye.

In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.

If you are moderately intelligent and have moderately decent taste, producing a stupidly large quantity of work and applying a modicum of taste when editing it will precipitate smart writing. Because you are smarter than you know, or even dare to believe.

Reading history is like binge-watching the highlight reels from past seasons of current affairs.

In the early stages, curiosity can seem frivolous. That’s part of why it gets dismissed. It doesn’t obviously bear immediate fruit. It’s just some annoying kid asking irksome questions. But these meddlesome kids go on to invent fertilizer and dynamite, atom bombs and iPhones.

Don’t mistake insights for progress.

Journalling helps you break out from the prison of your subvocalizations and the homeostasis of everyday life.

As long as there is one good person left alive on this Earth, I choose to stand with them. I'm on their team. And I’m optimistic that it would make a difference to them. Because it would make a difference to me.

A writer is a maniac who toils laboriously

to assemble a sequence of squiggles

that generate a parlor of hallucinations

in an attempt to jailbreak her own mind

out of the prison of her subvocalizations.

The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public.

My allegiance is to the light of human consciousness.