"Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?"

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Source : Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Raymond Carver

#Writing Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.”
“I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.”

Source : "Erica Durance Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.
“If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.”
“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.”
“Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other”
“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”

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