"I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all."

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Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Jerzy Kosinski

#Fear Quotes #Doe Quotes #Compass Quotes

“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”
“'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.”
“For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.”

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“I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.”
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
“More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.”

Source : John Ringo (2013). “There Will be Dragons, Second Edition”, p.109, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.”

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