"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose itâ€™s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole."

-- Eudora Welty

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“We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19.”
“My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.”

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“The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.”
“One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.”

Source : Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter
“Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.”
“What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it donâ€™t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you donâ€™t already know the story is a lie.”
“In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The virtue of a piece is the writerâ€™s thoughts.”

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