"Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel."

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Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org

Dacia Maraini

#Drinking Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes

“My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.”

Source : "Where Do New Ideas Come From?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.
“What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.”
“Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.”
“Every human being is a work of art.”
“Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down".”
“Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!”
“I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.”

Source : Sarah Winman (2011). “When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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