"How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing."

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

Jerry Stahl

#Writing Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Solutions Quotes

“I was very shy. I'm still shy.”
“I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.”

Source : Sarah Schulman (2010). “Rat Bohemia (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?”
“I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.”
“The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.”

Source : Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.
“The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.”
“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
“It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.”

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