"Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #East Quotes

“Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.”
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
“Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.”
“I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do.”

Source : "LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL Interview Pt. 1". Interview with Monika Bartyzel, collider.com. September 25, 2009.
“A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.”
“I don't do things that are illegal.”
“Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.”
“'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.”

Source : "1-On-1 with Henry Selick on The Life Aquatic". LatinoReview Interview, movieweb.com. December 20, 2004.

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