"There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able to write from a point of view that isn't exactly my own."

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Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk

John K. Samson

#Distance Quotes #Writing Quotes #Views Quotes

“It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.”
“Loneliness cannot be shared.”
“I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?”
“I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.”
“I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.”
“Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.”
“that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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