"I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story."

-- Amy Hempel

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.”

Source : Interview with Adrian, www.adequacy.net. May 30, 2007.
“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
“Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.”
“Unrequited loveâ€“plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasingâ€“turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.”
“Thou shalt not ration justice.”
“See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.”
“I can be horrifically single-minded.”
“...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.”

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