"I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

John Brandon

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Happens Quotes

“I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.”
“I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.”
“All jealousy must be strangled in its birth...”
“My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing to failure. I want to fail. I want to go to a place where I don't know what I'm doing, where maybe I'm lost. And in that uncertain space, I make decisions, and I know all those decisions are going to change everything else. And at a certain point, you just come to a place of rest. In revising, you reduce your options so that nothing is possible, and you just think, I can't change this anymore because I've already passed that decision point.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.”
“I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.”

Source : Playboy magazine, February 1972.
“At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.”

Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.25, Northwestern University Press
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

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