"I've never even done a residency."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Christopher Bollen

“I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!”
“I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish
“I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.”
“I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.66
“For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 08, 2001.
“You just stroke me, stroke me.”

Source : Song: The Stroke

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