"I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that."

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Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.”

Source : Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.
“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”
“I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.”
“Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored”
“I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
“On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.”
“I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.”

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