"Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically."

-- George Saunders

#Doors Quotes #Long Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.”

Source : Ori Hofmekler (2010). “Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation”, p.14, North Atlantic Books
“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”
“I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'”
“Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.”
“I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.”
“I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.”

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