"The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say."

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Source : Sandra Cisneros (1991). “Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”, Vintage

Sandra Cisneros

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“Stories are the reproductive organs of language.”

Source : Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press
“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.”
“In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,”
“I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.”
“I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up to you. You just play as hard as you can until someone changes the scene. The scene has changedthe end is not up to us.”
“I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.”
“I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.
“But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.”

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