"It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown."

-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.”
“One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.”
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”
“It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?”
“You're always being cast for what you've been in last.”

Source : AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. August 21, 2009.
“You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.
“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.”

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