"Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper."

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Harry Kemelman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Paper Quotes

“The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues”

Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.25, Penguin
“Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?”
“But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.”
“There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done”
“You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.”
“A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".”
“I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.”
“I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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