"I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally."

-- Sayed Kashua

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.”
“I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.”
“I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.”
“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. â€¨”
“The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.”
“When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.”
“You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.”
“Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.”

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