"I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Edan Lepucki

#Scary Quotes #World Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.”
“Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33.”
“I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.”
“I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or establishing a similar Internet-based business during the period until the resolution of the extradition proceedings”
“I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.”
“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
“My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's where it came from. I always come out of it thinking, Okay, that got it all outta me. The next one's gonna be nice and simple, and it's not gonna scare me, and that never seems to happen.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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