"For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot."

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Source : "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

Michael Koryta

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.”
“...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.”
“When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?”

Source : "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.
“I'm on a shoppin spree to get whatever is in store”
“As for politics, Iâ€™m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Canâ€™t stand caged animals. People must be free.”
“Falling in love is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. Its a feeling that you cannot resist and a feeling that you can almost never forget. Being touched by the feeling of love is the most memorable of all.”
“China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.”

Source : To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.
“Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.”

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