"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Nature Quotes #Rain Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.”
“If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.”
“Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.”
“I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.”
“I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.”
“AÂ true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.”
“Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers...”
“Politicians are better liars than writers.”

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