"I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story."

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You have one good game or season, so what? You have to have a career.”
“A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!”
“I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”

Source : "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.
“I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.”
“It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.”
“I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.”

Source : "Julia Garner Talks WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Getting Involved with the Film and Working with Jim Mickle, Plus Her Part in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2013.
“One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects”
“I was really interested in collecting insects.”

Source : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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