"You write by sitting down and writing. Â There's no particular time or placeâ€”you suit yourself, your nature. Â How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter."

-- Bernard Malamud

#Writing Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.”
“It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.”
“The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

Source : Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.99, Voyageur Press (MN)
“- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!”
“Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.”
“Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain”
“He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan.”
“My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort”

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