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Nathan Englander

"Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, youâ€™ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is youâ€™re doing, it needs to stop while you write. A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), Iâ€™ll write with earplugs in â€” even if itâ€™s dead silent at home."

Source : "How I Write: Nathan Englander". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. March 27, 2013.

Nathan Englander

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“Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.”
“I donâ€™t know, I donâ€™t know that Iâ€™m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes Iâ€™m even happy because Iâ€™m so engaged in the thinking. But thatâ€™s the great thing about performing, and why it is also sexual, because in that moment â€“ or in that evening â€“ Iâ€™m completely in the present for once in my life. Nothing that came before or anything that may come after: only what matters is now. And thatâ€™s what human beings crave.”
“I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.”

Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Call to Arms”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.”
“Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads”
“I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.”
“As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We canâ€™t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But itâ€™s there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.”

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