"It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired."

-- James Dickey

#Couple Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.”
“I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.”
“If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.”

Source : The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.
“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
“The love I knew was from books..”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”
“A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner. It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.”

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