"I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise."

-- Gustav Mahler

#Assuming Quotes #Never Assume Quotes #Disguise Quotes

“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”
“For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.”
“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”
“I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.”
“No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.”
“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.”
“90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?”

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