"Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Damian Barr

#Grateful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.”
“He lifted the arm covering his eyes and turned his head to glare at her. "I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you." "What do you mean, trouble?" She sat up, glaring back at him. "I am not trouble! I'm a very nice person except when I have to deal with jerks!" "You're the worst kind of trouble," he snapped. "You're marrying trouble.”

Source : "Mr. Perfect". Book by Linda Howard, 2011.
“We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality”

Source : Wright Morris (1975). “About fiction: reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses”, HarperCollins Publishers
“A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.”
“Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.”
“I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.”
“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.”
“I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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