"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."

-- Ornette Coleman

#Perseverance Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Making Mistakes Quotes

“People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people I've met. Combinations. You select certain details, that's all.”
“Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.”
“No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.”
“This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.”
“It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.”
“I'm as healthy as an ox.”
“Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?”

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