"I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real."

-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”

Source : Vincent Starrett (1929). “Penny wise and book foolish”
“The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.”
“Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.55
“We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.
“I think I deserve an apology.”

Source : "Perino Demands Apology After Boxer Calls Out White House for Lying About Cheney’s Global Warming Editing" by Satyam Khanna, thinkprogress.org. July 10, 2008.
“Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.”
“We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.”
“The book by William Goldman, Adventures In The Screen Trade, great, awesome book. He talks about this very thing - that you can't get a star to do a part that's not what their public expects. And Sandy's Bullock not like that. She's taken a lot of chances over the years. And Patrick Swayze certainly wasn't like that. But I mean, maybe that is true. Maybe that's exactly why they didn't like All About Steve.”

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