"I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction."

-- Robert Crais

#Night Quotes #Little Sister Quotes #Rabbits Quotes

“Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring. Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.”
“It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?”
“Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: 120+ Stories in One Volume: From the most beloved writer of children’s stories and fairy tales, including The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina and more”, p.153, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
“I walked into my agency and I said, "You know what? I can't do this. You're telling me I need to go on a diet? My diet is already zucchini only. What do you want me to do?" And basically, they gave me two options: either stay the way I was and do commercial work, or do plus size modeling. I remember having the usual salad but I added walnuts and salmon and olive oil and I thought, "The world didn't blow up!"I felt fantastic. I wanted to keep that feeling so I made a decision that day that I didn't care. There was more money to be made being healthy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.”

Source : Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.230, A&C Black
“From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.”
“I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.”

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