"I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop."

-- Clarence Budington Kelland

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Typewriters Quotes

“A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.”
“If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.”
“I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.”

Source : "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Led Boston's Renaissance, Is Dead at 71" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2014.
“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”
“I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.”
“I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.”
“Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.”
“I always think there will be that time that people will find out that Iâ€™m crap at what I do. I think theyâ€™ll figure out Iâ€™m crap. Doesnâ€™t everybody have that feeling?”

Source : "Marie Osmond says she's 'Dancing' in a scandal" by Ree Hines, Helen A.S. Popkin, www.today.com. October 31, 2007.

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