"Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of oneâ€™s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight wonâ€™t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer."

-- Larry Watson

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“Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!”
“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, youâ€™re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But itâ€™s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. Iâ€™m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”
“I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.”
“It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”
“Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.”

Source : "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.
“You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.”
“It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.”

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