"The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing."

-- Toni Morrison

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.”
“I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin
“I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.”
“I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.”
“Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.”
“Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.”

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