"The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth."

-- Joseph Boyden

#Spring Quotes #War Quotes #People Quotes

“I write a thousand words a day.”
“To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.”
“I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.”
“I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”

Source : Quoted in Francis Klagsbrun's TheFirst Ms. Reader We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables (p. 67)
“We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!”

Source : Yahoo! Chat, www.gilliananderson.ws. May 15, 2001.
“I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.”

Source : "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.
“Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!”
“Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.”

Source : "Two Fates" by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Dmitri Obolensky, 1823.

You may also like:

Alissa York
Writer
James Lee Burke
Author
Lawrence Hill
Novelist
Margaret Atwood
Poet
Michael Ondaatje
Novelist
Miriam Toews
Writer
Rawi Hage
Writer
Steven Galloway
Novelist
Thomas King
Novelist