"Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Real Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes

“When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.”
“And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?”
“Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.”
“An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.”
“La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."”
“Survival, I know, is to begin again.”

Source : Judy Collins (1989). “Trust Your Heart”, Fawcett
“But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys”
“Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.”

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