"I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow."

-- Martin Amis

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“Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.”
“When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.”
“The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.”
“People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly liberating about that, but also it lends itself to being taken advantage of, because in come the demagogues.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.”
“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
“I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.”
“What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.”

Source : "Philip Glass: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 9, 2009.

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