"If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer."

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Source : Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

Graham Swift

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“America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin”
“I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.”

Source : Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press
“Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.”
“Don't be sad; tomorrow and forever, we'll be together”
“The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.”
“Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.”
“Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shapeâ€”and words help to define those thoughts. Thatâ€™s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell casterâ€™s mind.”
“They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.”

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