"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."

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Jonathan Coe

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.”

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“A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.”
“I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.”
“X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This is awesome.”
“Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.”
“I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.”
“Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in...”
“Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.”

Source : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.45, Library of Alexandria

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