"Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing."

--

Tobias Wolff

#Writing Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.”

Source : 2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston
“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”
“I really feel our job as actors is to find a human experience in the character. So, for me, genre comes second; it's about script and the emotional journey of that character. Genre definitely has an impact, but it has more of an impact on the way the character is expressed. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.”
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.”
“It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.”
“As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.”

Source : Source: www.designboom.com
“I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.”
“Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.”

You may also like:

Anton Chekhov
Physician
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Geoffrey Wolff
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Lorrie Moore
Writer
Raymond Carver
Writer
Richard Ford
Novelist
Michael Caton-Jones
Film director