"They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”
“Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.”
“I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.”
“The media has been nice to me so far, but if I get compared to Channing one more time I'm taking it as a compliment, but it is crazy how many times people have compared me to him. I don't know if 'Magic Mike' is in my future, but we'll see.”
“What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end up with what you could call a time singularity - where there's no way for everything that happens to happen in real time. It's something that you need to wink at.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Be gentle with the earth.”
“You know the rule. If you're long, you're never wrong.”
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”

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