"This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing."

-- Zane Grey

#Writing Quotes #Motion Pictures Quotes #Distracted Quotes

“At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.”
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
“There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.”
“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”
“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
“I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.”

Source : CBS TV, 1976.
“I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

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