"You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders."

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Source : Source: www.percontra.net

Sefi Atta

#Passion Quotes #Writing Quotes #Overwhelming Desire Quotes

“I'm being honest, I say what I think.”
“Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.”

Source : "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.
“Books are absent teachers.”
“I was born on Halloween night, 2:00 am on November 1st, but still Halloween night in the USA. I think it was a destiny for me to work quite a bit in the horror genre. I love the horror genre. Since I was a teenager, my friends and I used to go to a video store and rent many horror movies that we would watch over the weekend and then scare each other at school. I've been fascinated with the horror genre all my life.”
“I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.”
“What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dick Gephardt from Oct 12, 2016
“Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.”
“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story â€“ comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales â€“ and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.”

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