"I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family."

-- Michael Pollan

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.”
“Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.”
“Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?”
“I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.”
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. ... whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.”
“To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.”
“You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.”
“I have always believed that what goes around comes around.”

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