"Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life]."

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Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

Brian Evenson

#Book Quotes #Air Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.”

Source : "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.
“This thing called curiosity... it's a scary thing.”
“Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.”
“The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.”
“I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.”
“Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.”
“The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.”
“I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.

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