"Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form."

-- Anthony Swofford

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.”

Source : "How Rob Brydon Learnt to Play Nice". Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 17, 2012.
“The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007
“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”
“If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.”
“The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.”
“I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.”

Source : "Fat Cats and Shady Deals". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2002.
“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Source : Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”
“It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.”

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