"I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of entering into a dialogue with ideas that are already out there, and calibrating how much sense these make to me or not. I want to be responsible to the work that has already been done."

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Douglas A. Martin

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Done Quotes

“You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.”

Source : "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.
“Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.”

Source : "Katherine Heigl's Dangerous Curves". Maxim Interview, www.tvguide.com. May 24, 2000.
“It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks, because it's not going to be fun anymore. But the repercussions are really bad. Like, Taylor Swift fans are really crazy. They threatened to murder me and stuff. It's really bizarre, and disgusting. They're the worst people in the world.”

Source : "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.
“You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?”
“However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.”
“I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.”
“At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the countryâ€™s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.”
“We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.”

Source : Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.3, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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