"The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency."

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James Kelman

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“Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.”
“In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.”
“I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.”
“Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.”
“I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2006). “Blood Ties Book One: The Turning”, p.321, MIRA
“When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.”
“Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.”

Source : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts.”

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