Richard Bach
Listen to your consciousness from twenty years in the future. Listen to the writer you will be and his or her magnificent life, listen to how she/he thanks you for not quitting today.
How brave that writer, now a memory for me, how well he lived the tests of his life!
Rejections? So what? He sent his stories and his books immediately to other publishers, until they sold.
He kept writing. He knew that I could be his future, and his unswerving tenacity then was his gift for me.
What's my gift for him? This life, the one he imagined, the one I live today, and which I share with a few million readers who still enjoy the ideas he wrote, and the ones still hidden in his future.
How brave that writer, now a memory for me, how well he lived the tests of his life!
Rejections? So what? He sent his stories and his books immediately to other publishers, until they sold.
He kept writing. He knew that I could be his future, and his unswerving tenacity then was his gift for me.
What's my gift for him? This life, the one he imagined, the one I live today, and which I share with a few million readers who still enjoy the ideas he wrote, and the ones still hidden in his future.
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Jay Jegathesan
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When I was in my teens, I came across Illusions. I wrote to you (sending a letter to the book pubs,) saying that there was not a chance in a million that I could be in a plane like that ...to my huge surprise, a year or two later, you wrote back.... saying "Maybe there's not a chance in a milllion but, maybe its a chance in 2 million".... that chance in 2 has come through. I still have the card. can I show you?
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