"To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy."

-- Anne Enright

#Writing Quotes #Space Quotes #Down And Quotes

“You don't have to be alone to feel alone.”

Source : Roland Smith (2008). “Peak”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.”
“For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.”
“We should learn to think with our fingers.”

Source : "Meditation" by Jose Lorenzo-Fuentes, (p. 113), 2003.
“We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.”
“Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.”
“... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
“I've been loving music all my life.”

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