"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."

-- Gore Vidal

#Writing Quotes #Player Quotes #Casting Quotes

“You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.”
“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
“We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.”
“The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
“I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.”
“I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.”

Source : 'Emblems' (1635) 'To the Reader'

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