"You know youâ€™re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Writing Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Throwing Quotes

“I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.”
“I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.”
“So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.”
“The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.”

Source : Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art
“... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.”
“There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.”
“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”
“I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.”

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