"Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language."

-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Lonely Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The characters I write about are very internal.”
“Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.”
“Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.”
“I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, â€œI can't get into this, it's all about girls.â€ I thought to myself, â€œWell, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.â€”
“Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive”
“I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.”
“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.”
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”

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