"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."

-- Elmore Leonard

#Writing Quotes #Advice Quotes #Important Quotes

“I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here”

Source : Song: I Try
“When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.”

Source : Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.
“This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.”

Source : Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.90, John Wiley & Sons
“There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.”
“Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.”
“You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.”
“I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was.”

Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.
“If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.”

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