"The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't."

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Source : Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

Jon Franklin

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Infancy Quotes

“I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.”
“To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.”
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
“What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on.”
“You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.”
“The majority of people do not accept my choices.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable.”
“I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.”

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