"But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasnâ€™t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps Iâ€™d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than Iâ€™d been in years."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Suicide Quotes #Years Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.”

Source : Song: Desperado, Album: Macadelic, 2012
“One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.”
“In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.”
“There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.”
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
“I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.”
“I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.”

Source : "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.
“Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.”

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