"You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into."

-- Anne Bernays

#Giving Up Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.”
“The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?”
“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”
“Elvis ate America before America ate him.”
“The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”
“My career is my girlfriend.”
“Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?”
“Learning and sex until rigor mortis.”

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