"Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?"

-- Annie Dillard

#Writing Quotes #Dying Quotes #Patient Quotes

“... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.”
“It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.”
“Actors do want to work with me and I'm very grateful for that, but you never know. I could write parts for them that they don't want to play and then all of the sudden they don't want to work with you that much.”

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“The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.”
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people?”
“Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.”
“I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.”
“The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.”

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