"As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need.""

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.”
“As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.”
“I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!”
“But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.”
“Just stay real and stay a real person.”
“Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.”
“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.”

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