"Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

Alan Garner

#Rooms Quotes #Chairs Quotes

“It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.”
“Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.”
“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.”
“And in stories, endings matter.”
“My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. Â The big design problem is designing your life.Â It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. Â You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.”
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
“[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.”

Source : Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media
“Only about half of all commercials actually work.”

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