"There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on."

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Source : "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

Sam Abell

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.”
“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”
“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.”
“My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.”
“In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”
“I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.”
“I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.”
“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”

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