"Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues."

-- Stephen Chbosky

#Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.”

Source : "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" (song) (1997)
“In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.”
“The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
“If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.”
“Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.”

Source : "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.
“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.”

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