"If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it."

-- Edvard Munch

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“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.”
“Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this moment--when we worked to reclaim our country--and our children will ask us how we contributed to this mighty undertaking. Our story should be one of patriotic people who beat back the onslaught of radicalism with courage and commitment.”
“I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down.”
“Above all else I am a dilettante in life.”
“My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.”
“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.”
“Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.”

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