"I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics."

-- Jeff VanderMeer

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.”
“My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.”
“...the law which is never to be broken is never required.”
“The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.”
“You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.”
“If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order â€” preferably a system of world government â€” is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.”
“When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.”
“You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.”

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