"It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world."

-- Umberto Eco

#Writing Quotes #Past Quotes #Trying Quotes

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”

Source : Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food”
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
“Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.”
“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

Source : "Teen Talks to: Sara Paxton". Interview with Andrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 5, 2007.
“It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.”

Source : "Tribute to Prince, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2016.
“In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.”

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