"Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest."

-- Karen Russell

#Stories Quotes #Figures Quotes

“Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.”
“Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.”

Source : Erich Heller (1975). “The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought”, Putnam Aeronautical Books
“I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.”
“In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.”
“The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.”
“I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.”
“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.”
“It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.”

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