"I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Peter Orner

#Notebook Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Crazy Quotes

“Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'”
“I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.”
“In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“Life is like any other contact sport; youâ€™re gonna get your knocks. But itâ€™s not the knocks that count, itâ€™s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what youâ€™re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they donâ€™t mean much. They just dissipate.”
“Ive been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldnt say anything, literally.”
“Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.”
“Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
“If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.”

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