"You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is itâ€™s working on; then you can write a novel."

-- James M. Cain

#Writing Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.”
“Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.”
“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.”
“Everybody wants to be like everybody else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.”
“That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.”
“Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.”
“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”

Source : WhiteWalls magazine, Vol. 36-38, p. 45, 1995.

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