"My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.""

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Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com

Jeff VanderMeer

#Giving Up Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
“As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.”
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
“Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!”
“I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.”
“When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations..”
“My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.”
“My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.”

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