"I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing."

-- Annie Baker

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #Play Quotes

“Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.”
“I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. Â I write to entertain my readers.”
“Push on and faith will catch up with you.”
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.”
“I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.232, Pan Macmillan
“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”
“The best computer is a man, and itâ€™s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”

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