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“I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.”
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“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.”
Source : Lytton Strachey remarks to Dora Carrington, March 23, 1917.
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“Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.”
Source : "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016. 
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“The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.”
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“There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.”
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“If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”
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“Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.”
