"Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not."

-- Alice Mattison

#Writing Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Day To Day Quotes

“Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.”
“He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.”

Source : Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.70, Bookclub-in-a-Box
“My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.”
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
“Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (1997). “The Empress of One”
“It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.”
“One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.”

Source : 1975 Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.
“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin....”

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