"An idea might spark an essay, but never a story."

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Source : "A Long Time Coming". Interview with Rob Hart, chuckpalahniuk.net. August 27, 2008.

Amy Hempel

#Ideas Quotes #Might Quotes #Sparks Quotes

“I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.”
“Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.”
“You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesnâ€™t matter to me.”
“... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.”
“Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.”
“My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.”
“I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.”
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

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