"Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.”
“There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.”
“I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather”
“My guitar was a loyal person to me.”
“I love very much to draw animals.”
“There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.”

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“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

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