"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."

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Source : Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

Janet Fitch

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“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.”
“You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.”
“I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.”
“It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.”
“Be my brother or I will kill you.”
“I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.43, Penguin
“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.”

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