"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."

-- John Sayles

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that donâ€™t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Donâ€™t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.”
“I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.”
“Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.”

Source : Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20
“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”
“A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.”
“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”
“It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.”

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