"I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel."

-- Mary Kay Zuravleff

#Dog Quotes #Silly Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
“I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Lobster Boy”, p.90, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
“There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.”
“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”

Source : Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins
“If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.”

Source : "Tatler Editor Kate Reardon defends speech to school girls on politeness and good grades" by Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. July 10, 2014.
“War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.”

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