"A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too."

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Source : Walter Kirn (2014). “Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

Walter Kirn

#Thinking Quotes #Use Quotes #Someday Quotes

“Writing is a holy chore.”
“The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.”
“I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.”
“Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.”
“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.”
“People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.”

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“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties â€“ French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 58), 1963.
“All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.”

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