"I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Mother Quotes #Hate Quotes #Drama Quotes

“A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.”
“God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.”
“As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.”
“Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.”
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”
“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You canâ€™t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”
“I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.”

Source : "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

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