"A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right."

-- Norma Fox Mazer

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“When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.”
“You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012
“I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.”

Source : Richard Hell (1997). “Go Now”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.Â The forms may change,Â yet the essence remains the same.”
“I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.”
“And while you was bangin on tables, I was bangin Snow White.”
“We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.”

Source : Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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