"The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.194, Penguin
“If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?”
“It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.”
“[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis”
“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.”

Source : "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.
“I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.”
“But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.”
“My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.”

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