"I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened."

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Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

Kathryn Harrison

#Cutting Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Want Quotes

“Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.”
“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.”

Source : "Crotchet Castle".
“Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.”
“When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.”

Source : Source: www.discdish.com
“Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 30, 2012
“If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get some change off of it, but the real fans are going to be those that come to the shows.”
“Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com

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