"I had a quick ear and could pick up languages."

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Diane Cilento

#Ears Quotes #Language Quotes

“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”
“I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.”
“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accursÃ©d Ghost!”
“Deserve your dream.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing
“Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.”
“By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.”
“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

Source : "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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