"I write to believe in goodness."

“I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.”

“I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.”

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“It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.”

“I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.”

“America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.”

“We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.”

“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.”

Source : "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 235, 1927.

“You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.”

Source : Virginia Euwer Wolff (2001). “True Believer”, p.3, Simon and Schuster