"If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Purdy

#Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Egomaniacs Quotes

“God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].”
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
“It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.”
“There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now itâ€™s time to move forward.”
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.”
“In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.”
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”

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