"The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story."

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Source : "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

Barry Lopez

#Writing Quotes #Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.”

Source : "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.
“The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight”
“It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.”
“That has been one of the pleasant surprises of my semester - finding that some of my Liberty friends are still my friends, even though they now know where I stand on social and political issues. These aren't cloistered idealogues, for the most part. They have liberal and non-religious friends. I think they're much more compromising than the evangelicals of a generation ago.”
“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.”
“I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.”
“Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.”
“No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.”

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