"Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational."

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Source : "Literature's DNA" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

James M. Cain

#Writing Quotes #Problem Quotes #Foreign Policy Quotes

“Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.”
“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”
“I love to live on the brink of eternity.”
“I hate my smile - I think I look like an absolute wally when I smile, I really do.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com
“I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.”

Source : R. L. LaFevers (2011). “Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.”

Source : "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.
“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”
“I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.1, Grove Press

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