"I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. August 1999.

Dennis Lehane

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Two Quotes

“Every human being needs to know to be a great parent, for a teacher to be a great teacher, and for a business partner to be a great business partner. We can't fall back on, "Oh, I only said it once and it didn't matter." That kind of phrase. That's a not-good thing for a leader to hold inside. If what that leader did is do that separation and this person now knew that they were not going to be on the popular team, doing it once and then not doing it again isn't enough to erase what just happened.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.”
“It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.”

Source : Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.9, Oxford University Press
“I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.”
“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”
“Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what”
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin
“What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.”

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