"You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again."

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Source : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

Patricia Duncker

#Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Desperation Quotes

“I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.”
“Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen.”
“I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.
“Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dennis Miller from Sep 25, 2013
“I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.”
“The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.”
“If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling”
“I'm mighty glad that I found you. Have a terrific birthday.”

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