"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."

-- Rick Moody

#Book Quotes #Dark Quotes #Want Quotes

“Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before.”
“A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.”
“I think the biggest area of growth is going back to our galactic heritage.”
“The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us alongÂ—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.25, Macmillan
“You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.”
“It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.”
“By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.”
“A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!”

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