"One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power."

-- Toni Morrison

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Said Quotes

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”

Source : Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)
“The public doesn't really know me. Only people in my inner circle know me well. Others identify me by the beard, always mad, sweaty and that is today's image. People don't understand me, they are scared of me.”
“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.48, Open Road Media
“At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.”
“Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.”

Source : "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.
“If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I don't have any particular actors I want to use, I'd probably consider animation for that project. Which medium I use doesn't really make that much difference to me.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.”

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