"Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!"

-- Matthew Specktor

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Stop yelling at the movie, you ainâ€™t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.”
“Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.”
“For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.”
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

Source : "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.
“What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.”
“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Source : Ayandegan newspaper, Iran, June 05, 1973.
“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press
“I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.”

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