"The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is."

-- August Wilson

#Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes #Eloquent Quotes

“Respond to others about your work with equanimity.”
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.”
“The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?”
“Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.”
“I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.”
“I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.”
“Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.”

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