"I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges."

-- Clive Anderson

#Summer Quotes #Scotland Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
“Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.”
“Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.”
“In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.”
“For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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