"Prescription for writerâ€™s block: fear of poverty."

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Peter Mayle

#Block Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.”
“In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.”
“My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.”
“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

Source : Interview with Dan Colen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.
“Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.”
“After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.”

Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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