"Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject."

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Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

Lynne Tillman

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“What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people's lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings.”
“Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
“A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ***** of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.”

Source : Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited
“I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.”
“If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.
“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.”
“Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.”
“While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.”

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