"But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention."

-- Julia Alvarez

#Writing Quotes #Essence Quotes #Attention Quotes

“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books
“To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names”
“I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.”

Source : "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.
“Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.”
“All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.”

Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2009). “Darkness Calls”, p.210, Penguin
“Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.”
“As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.”

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