"I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing."

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Andrew O'Hagan

#Writing Quotes #Personality Quotes #Together Quotes

“Collective will supplants individual whim”
“It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Photographing a cake can be art.”

Source : "Photographer Irving Penn dies, aged 92" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2009.
“I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.”
“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.”

Source : "Surrealism and Painting". Book by André Breton, 1972.
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

Source : TheWay of theWorld act 2, sc. 1 (1700)
“I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.”
“I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com

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