"A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human."

-- Carolyn See

#Heart Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Vastness Quotes

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage
“I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Thereâ€™s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.”
“I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.”

Source : "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
“Trust what moves you most deeply.”

Source : Sam Keen (1977). “Beginnings Without End”, Harpercollins
“If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. Â… Go wash your windows.”
“Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.”
“If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.”

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