"Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound."

-- John Gardner

#Spring Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.”
“In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.”
“Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown”
“What great changes have not been ambitious?”
“The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.”

Source : "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.
“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.”
“I always told my dad I'd play professional football.”
“The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.”

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