"I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery."

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Source : Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.128, A&C Black

Jay McInerney

#Writing Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Envy Quotes

“Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.”
“No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.”
“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
“People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.”
“If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.”
“I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.”
“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.”

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