"I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes #Salt Quotes

“Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.”
“Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.”
“I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.”
“Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.”
“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.”
“Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.”

Source : "Song: 'Message From Our Sponsor' (No More Cocoons)". 1987.
“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”

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