"I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always."

-- Zadie Smith

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet
“Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.”
“I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.”
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”
“Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.”
“I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.”
“The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics”
“I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.”

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