"I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I used to say, "Here's my book; it's six years late." I'm so much faster now, and work differently. With all the years of writing, I think I still draft as obsessively, but I think back to writing. On your first story, you start at draft one. On your second story, you start at draft ten. On your third story, you start at draft one hundred. If you need a hundred and eight drafts, you may write eight instead of a hundred and eight."

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Nathan Englander

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 26, 2012
“I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.”
“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
“I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.”

Source : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.
“Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.”
“I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.”
“I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.”
“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”

Source : "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.

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