"I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over."

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Source : "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.

Ali Liebegott

#Writing Quotes #Starting Over Quotes #Starting Quotes

“I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!”
“A house without love ain't a home.”
“Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.”
“If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.”
“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'”
“American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.”
“I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.”

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