#Regret Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Remember Quotes
“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.”
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“I have a genuine belief in giving back to the community.”
“I'm in pain but I'm confident I'll feel better tomorrow,”
“Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?”
“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”
“The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.”
“...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.”
“I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.”
Al Purdy Poet
Andrew Nikiforuk Journalist
Earle Birney Poet
Ethel Wilson Writer
John Gierach Author
Neve Campbell Actress
Paul Schullery Author
Ron Dart Author
Thomas McGuane Author
