"Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief. But, as a writer, you're struggling to make these decisions. What should the title be? What's the first line? The point of view? And the struggle with the decisions is because you're trying to figure out WHAT IS THE NOVEL, WHAT IS THE NOVEL?"

-- Mary Kay Zuravleff

#Struggle Quotes #Dna Quotes #Views Quotes

“I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.”
“I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.”

Source : Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com
“I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
“The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.”
“I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.”
“Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.”

Source : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”
“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”

Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
“I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I'm able, just a little bit, to step into a world that I know very little about. That's great fun.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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