"You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard."

-- Craig Silvey

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.”
“I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.”
“Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.”
“God dwells wherever man lets Him in.”
“Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.”

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