"I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands."

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Helen Oyeyemi

#Writing Quotes #Style Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”
“Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier.”
“I did the first backwards guitar solo on â€˜Iâ€™m Only Sleepingâ€™”
“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence ... And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”
“The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it”
“I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.”
“I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.”

Source : "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.
“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”

Source : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”

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