"Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then ***** under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment."

-- Will Self

#Team Quotes #Party Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.”
“When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I was learning. I'm so grateful for the poets in my life. Because of them I always knew the importance of each word, line.”

Source : "Making A Narrative In The Darkness: A Conversation With Samantha Hunt". Interview with Rumaan Alam, therumpus.net. July 17, 2017.
“The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.”
“Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.”
“What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.”
“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good”
“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isnâ€™t it?”

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