"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
“I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.”
“I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.”
“Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.”
“Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.”
“I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.18, A&C Black
“I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.”
“I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.”

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