"It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on."

-- David Sedaris

#Depressing Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Infinity is just time on an ego trip.”
“It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.”
“What we eat is a matter of life and death.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.57, A&C Black
“I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.”
“Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists”
“A man is always better than he thinks.”
“I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 19, 2003.
“Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.”

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