"You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwriteâ€”embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice."

-- Billy Collins

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #Style Quotes

“In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.”
“My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?”

Source : Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns
“I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.”
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.”
“When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!”

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