"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."

-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.”
“A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.”
“If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you.”
“A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.”
“I draw inspiration from everything. I draw a lot from love, from hate, from anger, from happiness”
“Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.”

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