"If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed."

-- Mordecai Richler

#Writing Quotes #Upset Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.”
“I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.”
“There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.”
“I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it's an addictive feeling.”
“We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.”
“Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.”
“To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.”
“I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.”

Source : "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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