"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes

“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”
“Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.”
“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”
“I don't think that the folks who are in the middle look at the conversation over whether or not Donald Trump's campaign is racist or whether or not Hillary Clinton should use that term to describe some of his supporters made sense, I don't think that the folks in the middle are looking at that debate.”
“Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.”

Source : "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.
“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.”
“It was a little skirmish across a century.”

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