"Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the dark place. Our humiliations and secret fears and deepest anxieties, those times where we were at our worst: that's the best material."

-- Leslie Pietrzyk

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.”
“I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.”
“When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.”
“Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love”
“Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.”
“Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.”
“People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.”
“An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.”

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