"She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. Youâ€™re writing that down? Has the interview started?â€ Lee, whenever youâ€™re talking to a reporter, youâ€™re being interviewed."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.”
“You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.”

Source : "The Garner Files: A Memoir".
“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.”
“George Jesselâ€™s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the townâ€™s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”
“In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species”
“Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.”
“Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.”
“To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet.Â It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.”

Source : Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.409, New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press

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