"I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book."

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PJ Harvey

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.”

Source : "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.
“I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.”
“Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.”
“The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.”
“Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.”
“It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries.”
“Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!”
“One of the great things about this genie [from Aladdin] is that when Robin Williams created him, and they created this after him, they were allowed to go crazy and when they had to go find someone to play the role live, they had to find someone who was nutty enough to go in different directions.”

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