"I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story."

-- Pam Houston

#Writing Quotes #Light Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.”
“Absurdity and antiâ€”absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
“People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.”
“I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.”
“I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.”
“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.”
“God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.”
“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.124, SUNY Press

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