"Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain."

--

David Bellos

#Creative Quotes #Brain Quotes #Use Quotes

“It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.”
“You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.”
“A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.”
“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”
“Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...”
“If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.”
“When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.”

Source : "Jennifer Jason Leigh: Fearless Leigh". Interview with Michael Fleming, movieline.com. April 1, 1999.
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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