"Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you."

-- Merrit Malloy

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“"Be fearless," is one thing. I'm still learning what that means, to be fearless. It doesn't just mean to be fearless in your work, but also in life. Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am. Because I'm driven, I have a hard time being patient. The universe is like, "You're not ready! Sit back and wait." Everything will line up just how it's supposed to.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”
“Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC
“When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'”
“I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.”
“Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.”

Source : "I know salt's unhealthy - but love it" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.
“If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!”

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