"With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff."

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Source : "The Tool Box: Wells Tower". www.newyorker.com. April 6, 2009.

Wells Tower

#Writing Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Reason Why Quotes

“Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.”
“I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”
“I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.”
“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”
“We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.”
“You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.”
“Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.”

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