"I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from."

-- Lawrence Wright

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feet Quotes

“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.”
“A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.”
“As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.”
“My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.”
“Politics swings like a pendulum.”

Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.
“I knew everything about her backstory. I skimmed through all the books and read through everything that happened between Sam (Chaske Spencer), Emily and Leah (Julia Jones), so by the time we started filming, I knew everything that had to do with my storyline.”

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