"What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jaume Cabre

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.”
“It's so hard sometimes, living in this world. But I know from experience, it can always get better if you're willing to ask for help.”
“This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.”
“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is, by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl when they see that.”
“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.”

Source : Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2011). “The Ox-Bow Incident”, p.30, Modern Library
“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”

Source : John Jay Chapman, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1937). “John Jay Chapman and his letters ...”

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