"I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see."

-- Elizabeth Olsen

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“I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.
“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.”
“People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.”

Source : "In other words ..." by Nigel Rees, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.”
“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.”
“The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.”
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.”

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