"Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with acuity, but I don't, and for me it takes the process of working on a book for years to do any thinking that I feel accomplishes anything. I don't do it off the cuff well."

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Lucy Corin

#Meaningful Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”
“I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.205, Random House
“You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
“The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.”

Source : Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.283, Grove Press
“There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.”
“I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.”
“The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.”

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