"Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Book Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.”
“Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.”
“There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.”
“Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.”
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1958, Del Rey
“When I got my head shaved, it was all over the papers. It's weird that when you get a haircut you are in the papers, it's pretty stupid”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.”
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

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