"As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Evie Wyld

#Running Quotes #Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.”

Source : "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.
“In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.”
“It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.”
“I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.”
“Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.”
“I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?”
“Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.”

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