"The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night."

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Davy Rothbart

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Night Quotes

“That which you believe becomes your world”

Source : Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan
“Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.”
“I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present”

Source : Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.”

Source : Glen Cook (1988). “Cold Copper Tears”, p.8, Penguin
“Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.”
“The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.”
“I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.”

Source : "Essence Atkins - The 'Are We There Yet?' Interview with Kam Williams". aalbc.com.
“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.”

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