"All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?"

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Daniel Pinkwater

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.”
“Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize a story are very different, and include not only drawing and writing dialogue and narration, but graphic design and the ability to depict time passing visually. It's a whole suite of skills that has to go into making a comics page, skills that are quite distinct from those that go into writing a page of prose, or making a film.”
“I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.”
“For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.”

Source : Interview with Steve Rosenfield, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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