"The thing is, all memory is fiction,"

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Source : Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.3, Algonquin Books

Robert Goolrick

#Memories Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”
“Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.”
“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”
“I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.”
“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”

Source : "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.
“My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
“Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.”

Source : Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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