"I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better."

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Chris Abani

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.”
“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
“I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.”
“God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.”
“My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.”
“Confidence comes from discipline and training.”
“Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.”

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