"Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy."

-- Jennifer Haigh

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....”
“In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.”

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“I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.”
“Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?”
“Ive seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.”
“It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.”
“A man has to know his limitations.”

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