"For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for."

-- Samanta Schweblin

#Attention Quotes #Argument Quotes #Introspective Quotes

“I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.”
“Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.”
“This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,”

Source : "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.
“Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.”

Source : Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub
“It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.”
“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”

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