"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."

-- Wally Lamb

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.”
“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”
“Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.”
“Workers of the world unite. It's not just a slogan anymore.”
“I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics - I'm almost quoting him - he said, we don't talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.”
“At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.”

Source : Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.16, Rodale
“With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.”
“I don't think I'm boring.”

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