"I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#Grief Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.”
“perfidious society masturbators”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Woodcutters”, p.85, Vintage
“I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.”
“Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to throw your body into it - that's a feeling that I'm not quite satisfied with having made yet.”
“The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.”
“How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.”

Source : Source: www.middleeasteye.net
“I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.”

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