"I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Francisco Goldman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.”
“it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.”
“Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.”
“I'm not interested in observed reality.”
“Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.”
“I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011
“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”

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