"I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.”
“The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.”
“Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.”
“I've had a lot of friends in the business that got out earlier than normal. They tell me they got out too early and that I should make sure I've got all I want before I step aside. When I do get out, there are other things that I want to do with my life.”
“I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.”
“In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.”

Source : David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press
“I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.”
“If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.”

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