"Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less."

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Source : "M John Harrison: a life in writing" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

M. John Harrison

#Writing Quotes #Gambling Quotes #Unpredictable Quotes

“I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.”
“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”
“Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.”
“Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.”
“As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.”
“If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.”
“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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