"when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most."

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Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marion Dane Bauer

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“The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.”
“Know why people run marathons? â€¦Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human â€” which means its a superpower all humans posses.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books
“Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!”
“Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.”

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“The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.”
“It was like Iâ€™d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.”
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.”
“Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.”

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