"Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Strong Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.”
“Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.”
“With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.”
“One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.”
“Syndicate is technically the first game I worked on.”
“If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.”

Source : Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan
“Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.”
“I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.”

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