"Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up."

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Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

John Edgar Wideman

#Writing Quotes #Scary Quotes #Important Quotes

“My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.”
“There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.”
“I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.”
“There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.”
“When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.”
“Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.”

Source : William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8
“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
“Jim Henson was an absolute genius.”

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