"That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in."

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Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

Padgett Powell

#Creating Quotes #Fiction Quotes #World Quotes

“I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.”
“Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla”
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”
“CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.”
“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.87, Heinemann
“In traditional societies, nature was seen as oneâ€™s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.”
“Dying people often become childish.”

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