"I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Maggie Shipstead

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“Who you are is always right.”
“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.”
“For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.”
“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

Source : "Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists" by Todd Starnes, www.christianpost.com. August 26, 2013.
“Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.”
“It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.”
“For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.”

Source : "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.
“There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, and in the media, from one extreme to the next.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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