"I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?"

--

Sara Pennypacker

#Broken Quotes #Shells Quotes #Might Quotes

“I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.”
“What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.”
“The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?”
“None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.”

Source : "Vision and Design".
“An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.”
“No new reader, however charitable, could open â€œFifty Shades of Grey,â€ browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

Source : "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.
“More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.”

Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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