"Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel."

-- Junot Diaz

#Running Quotes #Stories Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
“If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.”
“In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.”
“In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.”
“Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?”

Source : L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.154, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.”
“When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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