"My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story."

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Source : Source: poems.com

Philip Schultz

#Father Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Long Quotes

“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”
“You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.”
“I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.”
“There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.”
“I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.”

Source : "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.
“Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 291, 1895.
“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

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