"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."

-- John Irving

#Two Quotes #Special Quotes #Rewriting Quotes

“Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then”
“I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.”
“Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.”
“In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.”
“Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.”
“Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.”

Source : "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.
“Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!”
“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.”

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