"I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life."

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Source : "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

Jerry Stahl

#Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes #Reason Quotes

“What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.461
“Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.”
“As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.”
“Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is how I walk on set. And I have to - I mean, I'm controlling 150, 200 people, and everything is on me.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.”
“It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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