"This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and timeâ€¦I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in."

-- Paula Vogel

#Memories Quotes #Distance Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.”
“Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.”
“You canâ€™t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesnâ€™t get done.”
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.”

Source : "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".
“All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND”

Source : "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.
“At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.”
“'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.”
“The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.”

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