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Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
Vera Nazarian
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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
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I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.
Vera Nazarian
One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.
Vera Nazarian
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
Vera Nazarian
Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
Vera Nazarian
Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute. Remember a searing look of intimate eyes. Receive the inner fire.
Vera Nazarian
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
Vera Nazarian
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.
Vera Nazarian
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.
Vera Nazarian
I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
Vera Nazarian
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
Vera Nazarian
I am a novelist at heart.
Vera Nazarian
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Vera Nazarian
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
Vera Nazarian
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
Vera Nazarian
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
Vera Nazarian
Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
Vera Nazarian
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.
Vera Nazarian
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
Vera Nazarian
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.
Vera Nazarian
