"I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end."

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Bruce Joel Rubin

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Way Quotes

“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.”
“Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.”
“I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'”
“The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”
“It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of poverty, that your wealth is a gift. It is because the world is so unfriendly, that your smile is a gift. It is because the world is so full of war, that your peace of mind is a gift. It is because the world is in such despair, that your hope and optimism is a gift. It is because the world is so afraid, that your love is a gift.”
“...itâ€™d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, Iâ€™ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'Itâ€™s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didnâ€™t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick”
“I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.”
“I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.”

Source : "August Sander".

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