"The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life."

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Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

Betsy Lerner

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Pages Quotes

“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.”
“The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.50, A&C Black
“I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.”
“I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.”
“It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" Â— which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.”
“I've never met a very memorable cobbler.”

Source : "Assorted Fictions". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2006.
“pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues ...”
“Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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