"It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer."

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Source : William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.39, Univ. Press of Mississippi

William Maxwell

#People Quotes #Deprivation Quotes

“I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer. A very rich cartoon writer. I've done a lot of films, and I know deeply that, in all of cinema, there is no director who is as good as Shakespeare.”
“I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.”
“I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.”

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“The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.”
“the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”
“Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”
“Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.”
“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”

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