"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."

-- Tobias Wolff

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“Don't fight a fact, deal with it.”
“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?”
“If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.”
“It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.”

Source : Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.
“Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, butâ€”" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.”
“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”
“I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.”
“There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.”

Source : William Cartwright, “To Chloe,Who For His Sake Wished Herself Younger”

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