"My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings."

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Source : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

Joe Eszterhas

#Father Quotes #Writing Quotes #Immigration Quotes

“When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.”

Source : "Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace and Human Friendship". Interview with Tami Simon, www.dailygood.org. December 29, 2013.
“Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held”
“'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.”
“I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.”
“Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.”

Source : "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.
“If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.”
“I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.”
“It wasn't badass. I don't really do badass.”

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