"Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world."

-- Christine Schutt

#Hurt Quotes #Broken Quotes #Seductive Quotes

“I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.”
“I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.”
“Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.”
“The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you.”
“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”
“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.”
“Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?”
“Talking of love is making it.”

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