"I thought how lovely and how strange a river is..."

-- Aidan Chambers

#Rivers Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Strange Quotes

“The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.”

Source : "Fictional character: Evelyn 'E.M.' Ashford". TV Movie "Wit", www.imdb.com. March 24, 2001.
“Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.”

Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.
“It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.”
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”
“Of course itâ€™s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, theyâ€™re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterflyâ€”all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.”
“Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.”

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