"When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class."

-- Victor Salva

#Friday Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”
“You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.”
“It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.”
“Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.”

Source : John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.11, 谷月社
“What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings,”
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”

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