"I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience."

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Source : "Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain? She needs to let it go" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2014.

Annie Proulx

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes

“No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.”

Source : Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.”
“I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.”
“One day youâ€™ll wake up and find that the painâ€™s still there but it doesnâ€™t hurt quite so much.”
“The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.”
“Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.”
“What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?”

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