"I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lorin Stein

#Fun Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.”
“I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.”
“Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.”
“When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.”

Source : "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.
“Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.114, Morgan James Publishing
“Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.”
“It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.”
“Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.”

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