"I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Lynne Tillman

#Jobs Quotes #Character Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.”
“I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with....”
“Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.”

Source : Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976
“The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'”
“In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.”
“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.”

Source : Theodore Dwight Weld (2014). “American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag
“Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.”

Source : "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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