"I've always been able to survive by writing, though."

-- John Milius

#Writing Quotes #Able Quotes

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
“When we talk about magic a lot of people think you use that to pick up girls. So therefore there's this slimy connotation associated with it, like, "Oh hey, pick a card - my number's on it!" So I think I've avoided ever having people think that's what's happening. I try to make magic the treat of the interaction or the treat of the flirt. I've never gone up and tried to do a trick to get a girl's number, only because I feel like that's what people expect and it feels slimy.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.”
“This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.137, Yearling
“Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself....”
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.”

Source : "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.
“If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.”
“Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?”

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